Commando 41-24775

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24775

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26696

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU336

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to February 1944

  41-24775 - USAAF (USA)

1 December 1943

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

22 December 1943

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

26 February 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (6/24 fatalities). [MACR 2715]

Crew:
Capt Edward W. Higgins Jr., Pilot
1^st Lt Hal R. Drackert, Copilot
Cpl Norman Katzman, Radio Operator (pictured)

The Commando was operating a flight between Chabua, Assam, India and Kunming, Yunnan, China with 3 crewmembers and 21 passengers. It crashed for unknown reasons in India. The entire crew perished, along with three passengers. The wreckage was later reported to have been found.

28 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.