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Commando 42-96699

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96699

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30361

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU897

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  August 1944 to October 1944

  42-96699 - USAAF (USA)


7 August 1944

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

20 September 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to 1343rd AAF Base Unit, based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.

10 October 1944

Destroyed over Hsinching, Sichuan, China in a midair collision with Commando 42-96553 (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt Elmer E Miller

11 October 1944

Condemned for salvage.