Commando 44-77501

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77501

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32897

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1433

FATE: Broken up

  December 1944 to May 1945

  44-77501 - USAAF (USA)

1 December 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.

12 January 1945

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

4 May 1945

Condemned for salvage. [possibly an accident, but no trace of it in USAAF records]