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Commando 42-101093

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101093

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30548

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1084

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944 to November 1944

  42-101093 - USAAF (USA)


13 September 1944

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

24 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division. [43rd Troop Carrier Group according to JB, but unit does not exist]

20 November 1944

Damaged beyond repair over Paishuiho, China after a crash after taking friendly fire. [MACR 19726 or 10726] [location probably nowadays Paoshan, Yunnan, China]

Pilot: Lt. Marshall D. Levi

21 November 1944

Condemned for salvage.