Commando 42-3602

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3602

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26735

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU375

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to June 1945

  42-3602 - 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 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

13 December 1944

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Robert F. Hall

17 December 1944

Received major damage 2 miles south of Sookerating, Assam, India in a mid-air collision.

Pilot: George Blake III

10 June 1945

Damaged beyond repair 30 miles east of Paoshan, Yunnan, China after en engine failure.

Pilot: Thomas H. Morris Jr (survived, went on to fight in Korea and retired a Lt Colonel)

11 June 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.