Commando 42-3632

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3632

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26765

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU405

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to August 1944

  42-3632 - USAAF (USA)

7 January 1944

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

6 February 1944

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

1 June 1944

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

Pilot: Butler L. Johnston (survived)

24 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair 5 miles southeast of Yupanga, Burma in a crash following an engine failure.

[That location cannot be found anywhere. BAAA interprets it as “Panga”, near Kwanhlar in south Burma, yet that was too deep into Japanese territory back in August 1944. It could be “Pang War”, a pass at the Burma-China border on Route Easy, recently made available following the fall of Myitkyina in May 1944.]

Pilot: Wilford W. Welch

Condemned for salvage.