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Commando 42-96771

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96771

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30433

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU969

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-96771 - USAAF (USA)


4 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to December 1946

  39556 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


4 September 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.

8 September 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.

22 September 1944

Assigned to VMR-952, based at Emirau, Bismarck Archipelago.

Involved in supply and medevac flights to and from recently captured Peleliu, Palau.

December 1944

Transferred with VMR-952 to the Transport Air Group (TAG) based in Guam, Marianna Islands.

February 1945

Supported the assault on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands with VMR-952, dropping supplies to Marine ground forces.

March 1945

Involved in supply and medevac flights to and from Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands.

February 1946

Assigned to MAG-35 Service Squadron (Servron-35).

1 April 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.

29 April 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-33.

ca June 1946

Assigned to MAG-33 Service Squadron (Servron-33).

24 July 1946

Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron-25).

25 July 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-25.

31 October 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 December 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.