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Commando 42-3600

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3600

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26733

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU373

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to June 1944

  42-3600 - USAAF (USA)

1 January 1944

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

10 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.42 3600 1

25 May 1944

Went missing on a cargo mission between Missamari, Assam, India and Kunming, Yunnan, China (4/4 missing).

Crew:
1st Lt Cornelius D. Cregin, Pilot (pictured)
1st Lt Thomas C. Coombe Jr, Copilot
S/Sgt Robert P. Fiorentino, Radio Operator
Pvt Floyd W. Stock, Crew Chief

26 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.