Commando 44-77396

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77396

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32792

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1328

FATE: Written off

  November 1944 to April 1945

  44-77396 - USAAF (USA)

10 November 1944

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

Assigned to the 5^th Air Force, 54^th Troop Carrier Wing, 375^th Troop Carrier Group, 58^th Troop Carrier Squadron operating in the Southwest Pacific theater.

19 December 1944

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Late December 1944

Arrived at Biak AAF, Papua, Dutch East Indies.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

25 January 1945

Went missing between Biak AAF, Papua, Dutch East Indies and Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines.

2 April 1945

Condemned for salvage.