Commando 42-107296

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107296

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26983

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU623

FATE: Written off

  May 1944 to March 1945

  42-107296 - USAAF (USA)

2 May 1944

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

28 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing (or Division).

23 March 1945

Destroyed over the China-Burma-India theatre after the crew bailed out following an engine failure. [MACR 14141]

Pilot: William J. Ware

24 March 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.