Commando 44-77642

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77642

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33038

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1574

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to February 1946

  44-77642 - USAAF (USA)

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8 January 1945

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

12 February 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

Departed the USA for Europe.

Early 1945

Assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing, 349^th Troop Carrier Group, 314^th Troop Carrier Squadron at RAF Barkston Heath, UK.

Marked "LY-M".

May 1945

Carried elements of the British 1^st Airborne Division to Norway as part of Operation Doomsday.

26 July 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

 

Right: 44-77642 loading a Jeep, possibly during Operation Doomsday.
Photo credit: R. P. Smith / Key.aero

  February 1946 to unknown date

  44-77642 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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6 February 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

Fate unknown.