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Sources

Several sources have been used to built this website. The main ones, listed in this first list, have been given an acronym throughout the site in order to be easily identified:

This is a list of secondary sources. The page using each source has been put in brackets:

  • Ag Air Update, May & June 2017, pp. B-4 to B-7, The move westward [Visco Flying Service]
  • AMARC Experience, http://www.amarcexperience.com [Arizona Aircraft Storage Depot]
  • Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen saved the State of Israel (2017), Robert Gandt [Al Schwimmer, LAPSA, Israeli Air Force]
  • Aviacol, El portal de la aviacion, https://www.aviacol.net [Airlines of Colombia]
  • CAT Association, Civil Air Transport... the world's most shot at airline, http://www.catassociation.org [CAT (Civil Air Transport)]
  • Daniel Jackson (December 2017), Fallen Tiger: the fate of America's missing airmen in China, Sam Houston State University
  • Flight Magazine, 4 May 1956, p. 530, Super Commando, CAA approval for a modernized 55-passenger Curtiss C-46 [Smith CW-20T Commando]
  • Flight Magazine, 24 February 1958, p. 255 [Smith Super 46C Commando]
  • Flight Magazine, 28 November 1958, p. 830, Commando Rejuvinated [Riddle C-46R Commando]
  • Flight Magazine, 1 March 1973, p. 301, Chile third-level airlines [Linea Aerea TAXPA]
  • Flying Magazine, February 1948, pp. 24, 25 & 60, Tourists' Airline [AAXICO]
  • Flyteam Aviation Community, https://flyteam.jp [JASDF]
  • Go! Navy, http://www.gonavy.jp [JASDF]
  • Israel Airline Museum, El Al and other Israeli airlines - history and memorabilia, http://www.israelairlinemuseum.org [Airlines of Israel, Israeli Air Force, LAPSA & Al Schwimmer]
  • J-HangarSpace, the go-to website for information on Japanese aviation, http://www.j-hangarspace.jp [JASDF squadrons]
  • Joe F. Leeker, Dr. (24 August 2015), Air America: Curtiss C-46s, University of Texas at Dallas [Air America]
  • Joe F. Leeker, Dr. (24 August 2015), The early days I – CAT operations in China 1946-48, University of Texas at Dallas [CAT (Civil Air Transport)]
  • Joe F. Leeker, Dr. (24 August 2015), The early days II – CAT operations in China 1949-50, University of Texas at Dallas [CAT (Civil Air Transport)]
  • Joe F. Leeker, Dr. (24 August 2015), Working in Remote Countries: CAT in New Zealand, Thailand-Burma, French Indochina, Guatemala, and Indonesia, University of Texas at Dallas [CAT (Civil Air Transport)]
  • Leif Hellstrom (October 2012), The Curtiss C-46 Commando in Congolese Service, Small Air Forces Observer Vol.36 No.2 [Anstalt Wigmo]
  • Linea ALA, Historias y noticias de aviacion Argentina y la region, http://linea-ala.blogspot.com [Airlines of Argentina]
  • Lloyd Aereo Boliviano Fleet, Aircraft operated by LAB 1925-2010, http://www.lloydaereobolivianofriends.com [LAB (Lloyd Aereo Boliviano)]
  • Mark Wilderman & Dr. John Treiber (2018), A Brief History of the 60th Air Mobility Wing and Travis Air Force Base [Fairfield-Suisun AAB]
  • Missing in Action C-47 Burma WWII, Honoring valor and integrity, http://miac47burmawwii.org [accidents in the China-Burma-India theatre]
  • Neil's Nostalgia, Marana, http://www.dhc-2.com/marana.html [Intermountain Aviation]
  • Pacific Wrecks, https://www.pacificwrecks.com [CBI airfield information]
  • Phoenix Goodyear Airport, https://goodyearairport.com [NAS Litchfield Park]
  • Seaboard & Western / Seaboard World Airlines, http://www.seaboardairlines.org [Seaboard & Western Airlines]
  • Stuart Jessup, Guus Ottenhof & Peter Hillman (January 2016), Soviet Transports, Air History [Soviet & Chinese Commandos]
  • They Were Soldiers: Jewish military history, Jewish genealogy and Jewish history, http://theyweresoldiers.com [Jewish airmen]
  • The Story of IAF C-46 Commando RX-130, Avinoam Myasnikov & Amos Dor [RX-130, Israeli Air Force, LAPSA, El Al]
  • Transocean Air Lines 1946-1960, http://www.taloa.org [TALOA (Transocean Air Lines)]
  • Transair Sweden, http://transairsweden.com [Transair Sweden]
  • USAF Orders of Battle, http://usafunithistory.com [USAAF & USAF unit information]

Finally, a number of persons came to me to share information, documents, pictures, stories or their own research on specific aspects of the Commando. I would like to extend a special thanks to these people: Don Chan, Jim Gray (President of the Stinson Sentinel Club), Garth James, Gary Moline, Bob Pearson (whose dad flew for the Air Transport Command), James Salay (nephew of 41-24714's last flight radio operator), Tom Sippel (whose dad flew for the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron), Chris Thornburg, Clive Turner, Brent Wingfield.