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Commando 42-96559

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96559

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30221

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU757

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1944 to January 1945

  42-96559 - USAAF (USA)


27 June 1944

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

28 July 1944

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

7 January 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre.

Pilot: John F. Olson

Condemned for salvage.