Commando 44-77389

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77389

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32785

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1321

FATE: Broken up

  November 1944 to August 1949

  44-77389 - USAAF (USA)

8 November 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 5^th Air Force, 54^th Troop Carrier Wing operating in the Southwest Pacific theater.

18 December 1944

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

21 April 1947

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

17 August 1949

Reclamation completed at Clark Field, Philippines.

[This Commando is often mixed up with 44-77839, which crashed in Europe on 6 May 1945]