Commando 42-101038

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101038

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30493

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1029

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-101038 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

11 September 1944

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  Unknown date to December 1944

  42-101038 - USAAF (USA)

Unknown date

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

Assigned to the 2^nd Combat Cargo Group, 5^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Baer Field, IN.

Marked "X602".

Ferried from Fairfield-Suisun AAB, CA to Townsville, Australia.

Crew:
1^st Lt. Gilbert C. Daniel Jr., Pilot
2^nd Lt. Stanely F. Riha Jr., Copilot

10 November 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Late 1944

Moved to Biak AAF, Papua, Dutch East Indies with the 5^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Involved in the transport of supplies and troops to American and Filipino forces in the Philippines.

21 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair and condemned for salvage.