Commando 42-96588

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96588

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30250

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU786

FATE: Written off

  July 1944 to June 1945

  42-96588 - USAAF (USA)

28 July 1944

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

19 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Division, Bengal Wing, 1326^th AAF Base Unit, based at Lalmonirhat, Bengal, India.

26 June 1945

Went missing over India.

Pilot: 1^st Lt Theodore L. Dufur (missing, pictured)

The Commando departed Myitkyina, Burma on a cargo mission to its home station at Lalmonirhat, Bengal, India. It never arrived and was never found.

28 June 1945

Condemned for salvage.