Commando 42-96746

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96746

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30408

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU944

FATE: Written off

  August 1944 to February 1945

  42-96746 - USAAF (USA)

29 August 1944

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

3 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, 1328^th AAF Base Unit based in Missamari, Assam, India.

13 February 1945

Damaged beyond repair 16 km northwest of Chanyi, Yunnan, China in a crash following an engine failure (3/3 fatalities).

Crew:
1^st Lt Ray B. Delamater Jr, Pilot
2^nd Lt Charles R. Brumagim, Copilot
Cpl Francis J. Rourke, Radio Operator

[FAG quotes the entire crew as dying in Singapore, JB quotes it in Burma]

14 February 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.