Commando 41-24758

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24758

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26679

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU319

FATE: Written off

  November 1943 to September 1944

  41-24758 - USAAF (USA)

12 November 1943

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

14 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

20 December 1943

Received major damage in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: William L. Kempffer

21 September 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (3/3 missing). [MACR 8716]

Crew:
1^st Lt Robert N. Perry, Pilot
2^nd Lt James B. Hagen, Copilot
Sgt Theodore L. Charny, Radio Operator

The Commando was operating a flight from Kunming, Yunnan, China to Mohanbari, Assam, India. It was last heard by radio and disappeared. No trace of the crew or the aircraft was ever found.

23 September 1944

Condemned for salvage.

23 September 1945

Crew declared dead.