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Commando 42-101136

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101136

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30591

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1127

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  October 1944 to December 1944

  42-101136 - USAAF (USA)


2 October 1944

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

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

Marked "X607".

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

Crew:
1st Lt. Frederick W. Rottmann III, Pilot
2nd Lt. Clarence L. Sheeley, Copilot

14 November 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Late 1944

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

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

21 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair in the Southwest Pacific theatre in an accident.

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 01/09/2020