Commando 42-107331
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107331
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27018
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU658
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
May 1944 to July 1945
42-107331 - USAAF (USA)
4 May 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY .
14 July 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.
14 July 1945
Went missing along the Manipur Road, India (3/3 missing). [MACR 14760]
Crew:
1st Lt William M. Duffey
Sgt Thomas J. French
2nd Lt Kenneth E. Thomson
15 July 1945
Condemned for salvage.
2010
Wreckage found near the village of Lailur in the Singhason Hills, Assam, India.
2015
Wreckage formally identified as 42-107331 thanks to the works of Dr Abhijit Rabha, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Karbi Anglong.