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C-46 Commando

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: C-46A 41-5159 in flight 1942

: Marine R5C-1 destroyed by Japanese Paratroops Yontan Airfield 1945

: C-46 “Southern Belle” of the 313th Troop Carrier Group

: Flight crews unload Piper AE-1 30289 from a C-46 at Peleliu

: C-46 and Jeep PTO

: Paratroopers jumping from C-46D 44-77524 of the 437th TCG

: 17th Airborne Troops Jump from C-46, Operation Varsity 24 March 1945

: Wounded evacuated aboard C-46 of the 1st Air Commando Group in Burma

: C-46A 42-96621 in flight

: C-46D code X144 of the 375th TCG, Pacific 1945

: R5C of the VMR-952 taxis on the runway at Yontan Okinawa in April 1945

: C-46A 42-107343 Agadir

: C-46D 44-78109 in flight

: C-46D W7-AD 44-77686 of the 316th Troop Carrier Group

: C-46A of the N3-O 47th TCS, 313 Troop Carrier Group

: C-46 PTO 2

: C-46 in flight

: C-46 PTO

: Curtiss C-46 in flight

: Paratroopers jumping from a C-46 44-77548 H2-L of 313th TCG 2

: Loading C-46A 41-12413 to flight to China over Hump 44

: C-46 Q8-D of the 349th Troop Carrier Group

: C-46D 44-77548 H2-L of 313th Troop Carrier Group

: 100 soldiers on wings of Curtiss C-46 1943

: Early C-46 during tests at Curtiss-Wright Factory Buffalo

: C-46 of the 313th TCG England

: C-46 and P-40 on Assembly Line in Curtiss Plant 1942

: Curtiss C-46D 44-78032

: Crashed C-46D #7 1944

: C-46D 44-77541 N3-A of the 313th TCG, 47th Squadron 1945

: Crashed C-46

: Crashed C-46A 42-101159 X619 of 2nd CCG, October 1945

: Curtiss C-46 assembly line

: Curtiss C-46D 44-78109 2

: C-46A 41-5160

: Jeep beside Curtiss C-46 Commando and P-40 Warhawk

: C-46 #3 PTO November 1943

: Loading Jeep onto C-46A 41-5163

Commando was a transport aircraft originally derived from a commercial high-altitude airliner design. It was instead used as a military transport during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces as well as the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps under the designation R5C. Known to the men who flew them as “The Whale,” or the “Curtiss Calamity,” the C-46 served a similar role as its counterpart, the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, but was not as extensively produced.