Commando 42-101165

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101165

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30620

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1156

FATE: Written off

  October 1944 to January 1945

  42-101165 - USAAF (USA)

5 October 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 "X624".

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

Crew:
Maj. Diar E. Clark, Pilot
1^st Lt. Sheldon Himber, 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.

21 January 1945

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

Condemned for salvage.