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Commando 42-96650

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96650

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30312

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU848

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to December 1944

  42-96650 - USAAF (USA)

29 July 1944

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

19 August 1944

Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

November 1944

Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.

19 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Dergaon, Assam, India in a crash following an engine failure after takeoff. [several sources cite Missamari instead of Dergaon]

Pilot: Jesse S. Terry Jr

Condemned for salvage.