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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.