Commando 44-77521

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77521

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32917

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1453

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to unknown date

  44-77521 - USAAF (USA)

December 1944

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

Early 1945

Assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing, 313^th Troop Carrier Group, 48^th Troop Carrier Squadron based at Grevillers-Achiet (B-54), France.

24 March 1945

Damaged during Operation Varsity over Wesel, Germany.

Fate unknown. [quoted by some as transferred to the USAF in 1947 and withdrawn from use in 1959, but not documented]