Commando 42-101044
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando
USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101044
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30499
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1035
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
September 1944
42-101044 - USAAF (USA)
15 September 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
September 1944 to unknown date
39564 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)
15 September 1944
Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.
23 September 1944
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.
January 1945
Assigned to VMR-352, probably based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
21 February 1945
Assigned to VMR-353, based at Saipan, Marianna Islands.
Supported the assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
November 1945
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-33.
February 1946
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-15.
March 1946
Assigned to MCAS Ewa, HI. [AB says “Pearl Harbor” which could also be NAS Ford Island but unlikely]
April 1946
Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.
31 October 1946
Struck off charge as surplus.
Fate unknown. [AB mixes this one up with Bu.No.39574 which became HR-TND, OR-R-829 and HP-483]