Commando 42-3609

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3609

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26742

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU382

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to August 1944

  42-3609 - USAAF (USA)

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30 December 1943

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 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

25 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a crash-landing for unknown reasons 10 km east of Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Pilot: Lt Merlin A. Johnson (killed)

Condemned for salvage.