Commando 42-96817

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96817

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30479

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1015

FATE: Unknown

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-96817 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

11 September 1944

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

  Unknown date to November 1945

  42-96817 - USAAF (USA)

Unknown date

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

Assigned to the 2^nd Combat Cargo Group, 6^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Baer Field, IN.

Ferried from Fairfield-Suisun AAB, CA to Nadzab Field, Australian New Guinea .

Crew:
1^st Lt. Walter R. Fink, Pilot
2^nd Lt. Gerald L. Honn, Copilot

10 November 1944

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Late 1944

Moved to Biak AAF, Papua, Dutch East Indies with the 6^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Involved in the transport of supplies and troops to American and Filipino forces in the Philippines.

March 1945

Moved to Dulag Field, Philippines with the 6^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Operated flights to Australia, New Guinea, and within the Philippines, and transported personnel and supplies to the Ryukyus, evacuating casualties on the return flights.

August 1945

Moved to Bolo Point, Okinawa, Japan with the 6^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Operated flights carrying occupation forces personnel and equipment to Japan, and ferrying liberated prisoners of war to the Philippines.

September 1945

Moved to Yokota AB, Japan with the 6^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

ca 1946

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

4 November 1945

Condemned for salvage as obsolete, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.