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Commando 41-12413

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12413

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26540

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU180

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1943 to February 1944

  41-12413 - USAAF (USA)

24 June 1943

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

17 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 1st Transport Group based in Chabua, Assam, India.

30 January 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. Crew fate unknown.

Pilot: Alvin G. Anderson

4 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.

 

Right: 41-12413 being loaded somewhere in India, 1944.
Photo credit: www.worldwarphotos.info

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Last edited: 26/08/2020