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Commando 42-101037

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101037

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30492

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1028

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944 to June 1945

  42-101037 - USAAF (USA)

12 September 1944

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

15 November 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, 1332nd AAF Base Unit, based in Mohanbari, Assam, India.

14 June 1945

Destroyed 45 km from Mohanbari, Assam, India after the crew bailed out following an engine failure (1 fatality). [MACR 14708] [date reported as 15 June 1945 by AAIR]

Pilot: F/O Norman E. Jones Jr. (killed)

The Commando suffered and engine failure over Upper Assam. The pilot remained at the controls while other crew members bailed out. He was the only one not to survive.

Condemned for salvage, washout.