Commando 42-3595

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3595

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26728

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU368

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3595 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

17 December 1943

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  January 1944 to October 1944

  42-3595 - USAAF (USA)

11 January 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

6 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

23 February 1944

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a ground accident.

Pilot: Joseph T. Turner

Unknown date

Christened “Latrine Weasel”.

9 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair after a belly landing near Kunming, Yunnan, China following an engine failure (0/4 fatalities).

Pilot: Angelo Vieceli

10 October 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Below: Latrine Weasel at work.
Photo credit: USAF