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Commando 42-3604

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3604

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26737

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU377

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3604 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


15 December 1943

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

  January 1944 to December 1944

  42-3604 - USAAF (USA)


11 January 1944

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

17 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

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

8 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair near Mohanbari, Assam, India, apparently while performing some low flying (fatalities).

Pilot: 2nd Lt Harold L. Reese (killed)

Condemned for salvage.