Commando 42-107282

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107282

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26969

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU609

FATE: Written off

  April 1944 to June 1944

  42-107282 - USAAF (USA)

25 April 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

23 May 1944

Went missing over India (4/4 fatalities). [MACR 5198]

Crew:
Capt. Terry V. Prosper (pictured)
Capt. Thomas F Ruckelshaus
1^st Lt. Jacob A Sternbaum
SSgt. Harold Ruslander

The Commando was operating a flight between Chabua and Missamari, Assam, India. It crashed for unknown reasons. The wreckage and crew remains were eventually located in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dafflaghur Hills (27°06’N / 93°24’E).

23 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.

[AB erroneously quotes this Commando as assigned to the ATC Central African Wing on 8 June 1944, probably a typo]