Commando 42-60950

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60950

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26825

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU465

FATE: Written off

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-60950 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to April 1945

  42-60950 - USAAF (USA)

3 April 1944

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

7 May 1944

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

10 April 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (3/3 missing). [MACR 13791]

Crew:
1^st Lt William R. Mundt, Pilot
Flt Off Earl F. Trieschmann, Copilot
Pfc John E. Ahrendtsen, Radio Operator

The Commando was operating a cargo flight between Sookerating, Assam, India and Chanyi, Yunnan, China. It was never seen again. Heavy thunderstorm activity was observed that day over China, and is presumed to have contributed to the crash.

Condemned for salvage.

11 April 1946

Crew declared dead.