Commando 42-101166

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101166

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30621

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1157

FATE: Broken up

  October 1944 to August 1948

  42-101166 - 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 "X625".

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

Crew:
Maj. John L. Ames, Pilot
Capt. Glenn R. Piper, 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.

May 1945

Moved to Dulag Field, Philippines with the 5^th 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 5^th 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 5^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

ca 1946

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

21 April 1947

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

14 August 1948

Reclamation completed, possibly at Clark AB, Philippines.