Commando 42-101092

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101092

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30547

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1083

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to May 1945

  42-101092 - USAAF (USA)

20 September 1944

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

Assigned to the 2^nd Combat Cargo Group, 5^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Baer Field, IN.

Marked "X606".

Ferried from Fairfield-Suisun AAB, CA to Townsville, Australia.

Crew:
1^st Lt. Harold L. Abrams, Pilot
2^nd Lt. Warren H. Chaffee, Copilot

10 November 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Late 1944

Moved to Biak AAF, Papua, Dutch East Indies with the 5^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Involved in the transport of supplies and troops to American and Filipino forces in the Philippines.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

1 May 1945

Damaged beyond repair somewhere in the Soutwest Pacific theatre.

Condemned for salvage, accident, non-combat.