Commando 43-47154

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47154

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 225

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK202

FATE: Written off

  January 1945 to March 1945

  43-47154 - USAAF (USA)

26 January 1945

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

5 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1304^th AAF Base Unit, RAF Barrackpore, Bengal, India.

1 March 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 12834]

Crew:
1^st Lt. Elmer H. Capell, Pilot
2^nd Lt. John C. Breese, Copilot
2^nd Lt. Keith E. Carnie
MSgt. Harold W. Dahlstrom, Engineer
Pfc. Norman T. Bayne

The Commando had been operating a cargo flight between Myitkyina, Burma and Kunming, Yunnan, China via Fox Route with five crewmembers onboard.

4 March 1945

Condemned for salvage.

ca 1949

Wreckage probably found, as crewmembers corpses were repatriated and intered in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, MO on 29 August 1949.