Commando 44-77527

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77527

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32923

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1459

FATE: Written off

  December 1944 to March 1945

  44-77527 - USAAF (USA)

7 December 1944

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

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

21 January 1945

Departed the USA for Europe.

February 1945

Assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing, 313^th Troop Carrier Group, 47^th Troop Carrier Squadron based at RAF Folkingham, England.

Marked "N3-O".

24 March 1945

Shot down by flak over Germany during Operation Varsity. [MACR 13354]

The Commando crashed east of the Rhine.

Condemned, missing in action. [date noted as 23 March 1945, typo]