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Commando 44-77298

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77298

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32694

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1230

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  October 1944 to January 1946

  44-77298 - USAAF (USA)


21 October 1944

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

Assigned to the 4th Combat Cargo Group, 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

18 November 1944

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

Crew:
1st Lt. Joseph M. Peebles, Pilot
2nd Lt. William M. Thompson, Copilot
Cpl. Jack A. Baker, Crew Chief
Sgt. Kenneth M. Stackhouse, Radio Operator

4 December 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

Mid-December 1944

Arrived in Sylhet, Bengal, India with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

18 December 1944

Received major damage in Sylhet, Bengal, India in a taxi accident.

Crew: Cpl. Jack A. Baker and others (wrongly designated as the pilot)

Late December 1944

Moved to Agartala, Tripura, India with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

January 1945

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

June 1945

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

September 1945

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

October 1945

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

November 1945

Moved to RAF Ondal, Bengal, India with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 18/09/2020