Commando 42-101074

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101074

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30529

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1065

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to March 1945

  42-101074 - USAAF (USA)

13 September 1944

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

23 October 1944

Assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3^rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

12 March 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (all missing). [MACR 13015] [date also listed as 13 March 1945]

Copilot: 2^nd Lt. Raymond S. Lewis

The Commando took off from Sookerating, Assam, India to China, carrying 88 10-kg soft-nosed high-explosive shells for the B-29 bomber fleet. It was never seen again.

15 March 1945

Condemned for salvage.