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Commando 42-101062

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101062

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30517

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1053

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944 to July 1945

  42-101062 - USAAF (USA)


15 September 1944

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

4 December 1944

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

30 June 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (3/3 missing). [MACR 14689]

Crew:
1st Lt. Edward F. Grove, Pilot
FO Paul E. Peek, Copilot
Sgt. George L. Penn, Radio Operator

The Commando went missing on a flight from Mohanbari, Assam, India to Chanyi, Yunnan, China.

1 July 1945

Condemned for salvage.