Commando 42-3575

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3575

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26708

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU348

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to August 1944

  42-3575 - USAAF (USA)

10 December 1943

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

18 December 1943

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

25 August 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 7856]

Pilot: Capt Elwood O. Wells (pictured, killed)

Condemned for salvage.

ca 1948

Wreckage found and crew remains repatriated.