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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]