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Commando 42-101119

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101119

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30574

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1110

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944 to April 1945

  42-101119 - USAAF (USA)

25 September 1944

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

28 October 194442 101119 1

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

29 April 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (3/3 missing). [MACR 14389]

Crew:
1st Lt. Alec Sabo, Pilot [misspelled Alex Sabo]
FO Harry Goodman, Copilot (pictured right)
Cpl Edgar L. Bowdoin, Radio Operator

The Commando was operating a cargo flight between Chanyi, Yunnan, China and Sookerating, Assam, India. After takeoff, they were never heard from nor seen again.

3 May 1945

Condemned for salvage.

30 April 1946

Crew declared dead.