Commando 41-24705

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24705

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26626

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU266

FATE: Written off

  September 1943 to March 1945

  41-24705 - USAAF (USA)

20 September 1943

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

15 January 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

17 June 1944

Received major damaged in Tingkawk Sakan, Burma in a landing accident.

Pilot: James P. McAllister

August 1944

Transferred to the 1333^rd AAF Base Unit based in Chabua, Assam, India as part of ATC India-China Division units renaming.

13 March 1945

Went missing over China. [MACR 13019]

Pilot: 2^nd Lt Joseph A. Tadych (missing)

No trace of the Commando was ever found.

24 March 1945

Condemned for salvage.