Commando 44-77592

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77592

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32988

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1524

FATE: Preserved

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77592 - USAAF (USA)

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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, 29^th Troop Carrier Squadron based at RAF Folkingham, England.

Marked "5X-I".

24 March 1945

Damaged over Germany during Operation Varsity.

 

Right: 44-77592 on takeoff, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: Carl Gwartney Collection / San Diego Air & Space Museum

  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77592 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 437^th Troop Carrier Wing based at Brady AB, Japan.

 

Below: two different liveries of 44-77592 with the 437^th TCW.
Photo credit: Caracal Models

  Unknown dates

  0-77592 - ROKAF (REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE) (SOUTH KOREA)

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Unknown date

Purchased.

  Unknown date to present

  0-77592 - KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL (SOUTH KOREA)

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Unknown date

Transferred to the Korea War Memorial, Seoul, South Korea and displayed outdoor.

 

Left: 0-77592 at the Korean War Memorial in Pusan, South Korea on 28 May 2022.
Photo credit: unknown / v.daum.net