Commando 42-101158
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando
USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101158
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30613
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1149
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
October 1944 to July 1949
42-101158 - USAAF (USA)
4 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 "X618".
Ferried from Fairfield-Suisun AAB, CA to Townsville, Australia.
Crew:
1st Lt. Eugene M. Olmsted, Pilot
2nd Lt. Claude H. Spencer, Copilot
10 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.
May 1945
Moved to Dulag Field, Philippines with the 5th Combat Cargo Squadron.
Operated flights to Australia, New Guinea, and within the Philippines, and transported personnel and supplies to the Ryukyus, evacuating casualties on the return flights.
August 1945
Moved to Bolo Point, Okinawa, Japan with the 5th Combat Cargo Squadron.
Operated flights carrying occupation forces personnel and equipment to Japan, and ferrying liberated prisoners of war to the Philippines.
September 1945
Moved to Yokota AB, Japan with the 5th Combat Cargo Squadron.
14 January 1948
Assigned to Tachikawa AB, Japan.
23 June 1949
Reclamation authorized, possibly by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
29 July 1949
Reclamation completed, probably at Tachikawa AB, Japan.
[according to JB, condemned for salvage as obsolete on 1 August 1947]
Last edited: 01/09/2020