Commando 42-107313

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107313

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27000

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU640

FATE: Written off

  May 1944 to February 1945

  42-107313 - USAAF (USA)

8 May 1944

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

9 July 1944

Probably assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3^rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

November 1944

Moved with the 3^rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.

14 January 1945

Moved with the 3^rd Air Transport Squadron to Sookerating, Assam, India.

25 February 1945

Damaged beyond repair 30 km from Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a crash and destroyed by fire.

Pilot: William V. Thayer

26 February 1945

Condemned for salvage.