Commando 42-96815

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96815

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30477

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1013

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-96815 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

8 September 1944

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  Unknown date to December 1944

  42-96815 - USAAF (USA)

Unknown date

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

Assigned to the 4^th Combat Cargo Group, 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Bowman Field, KY.

12 November 1944

Ferried from Morrison Field, FL to Sylhet, Bengal, India.

Crew:
Lt. Col. Stuart D. Baird, Pilot (and Group Commander)
1^st Lt. Franklin M. Garrett, Copilot
SSgt. Dennie H. Walden, Crew Chief
SSgt. Clyde M. Bain, Radio Operator

28 November 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

Early December 1944

Arrived in Sylhet, Bengal, India with the 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Transported reinforcements and supplies for Allied forces in Burma, and material and equipment for the Ledo Road.

15 December 1944

Went missing over Burma. [MACR 10397]

16 December 1944

Condemned for salvage.