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 January 1944

  41-24660 - USAAF (USA)

2 August 1943

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

3 September 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 29^th Transport Group, 100^th Transport Squadron based at Sookerating, Assam, India.

17 January 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 1996] [accident date also erroneously quoted as 20 December 1943]

Crew:
1^st Lt Barney X. Slamkowski, Pilot (pictured)
1^st Lt Walter E. Page Jr, Copilot
Pfc James R. Carlson, Radio Operator
Sgt William F. Gilliland, Engineer
... and perhaps Harold E. Greenberg

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.

Condemned for salvage by AFMSC.