Commando 41-24660

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24660

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26581

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU221

FATE: Written off

  August 1943 to December 1943

  41-24660 - USAAF (USA)

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2 August 1943

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

3 September 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

20 December 1943

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 1996] [accident date unsure, also quoted as 17 January 1944 and 18 January 1944]

The aircraft took off from Sookerating, Assam, India on a mission to Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China. They were shot down by Japanese aircraft. The crash location is unknown.

Crew:
Harold E. Greenberg
1^st Lt Barney Xavier Slamkowski, pictured
And others

17 January 1944

Condemned for salvage by AFMSC.