Commando 42-96825

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96825

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30487

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1023

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-96825 - 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 September 1945

  42-96825 - USAAF (USA)

Unknown date

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

Assigned to the 4^th Combat Cargo Group, 16^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Bowman Field, KY.

18 November 1944

Ferried out of Morrison Field, FL toward Sylhet, Bengal, India.

Crew:
1^st Lt. Richard K. Young, Pilot
FO Francis B. Zagrodny, Copilot
Sgt. Coy Gibson, Crew Chief
Sgt. Howard B. Wilkens, Radio Operator

30 November 1944

Damaged while ferrying through Khartoum, Sudan in a ground accident while parked. [RAF Wadi Seidna?]

Repaired.

31 December 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

January 1945

Moved to Chittagong, Bengal, India with the 16^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

June 1945

Moved to Namponmao, Burma with the 16^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

September 1945

Moved to Ledo, Assam, India with the 16^th Combat Cargo Squadron.

17 September 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Namponmao, Burma in a ditching. [in the Irrawady River?]

Pilot: Edward H. Garreston

22 September 1945

Condemned for salvage. [strangely as "obsolete", according to AB]