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Commando 42-96758

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96758

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30420

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU956

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-96758 - USAAF (USA)


2 September 1944

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

6 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

18 March 1945

Received major damage in the China-Burma-India theatre in a bird strike.

Pilot: Richard J. Lentz

 

Fate uncertain from this point on, with sources giving discordant information: