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Commando 42-3682

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-36-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3682

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26815

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU455

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-3682 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to July 1944

  42-3682 - USAAF (USA)


25 March 1944

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

12 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

26 June 1944

Destroyed 30 km northwest of Sookerating, Assam, India in a mid-air explosion (4/4 fatalities). [MACR 6120]

Crew:
Capt Karl H. Turner, Pilot
2nd Lt Frank J. Grimmer, Copilot
Cpl Walter Heuer
PFC George Marich

14 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.