Commando 42-61060

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61060

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26935

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU575

FATE: Broken up

  April 1944 to January 1946

  42-61060 - USAAF (USA)

24 April 1944

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

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 June 1944

Probably assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2^nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India. [assumption based on dates, to be confirmed]

31 October 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India. [TBC]

November 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Luliang, Yunnan, China. [TBC]

31 January 1945

Received major damage in the China-Burma-India theatre in a landing accident.

Pilot: George J. Fassuliotis

Mid-1945

Assigned to ATC India China Division. [TBC]

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.