USAAF
5th AF
374th TCG
21st TCS
Crashed April 24, 1943
Aircraft History
This aircraft was formally DC-3-362 constructor's number 3297. Prewar it served with Trans Continental and Western Airlines as NC1953 before going to the USAAF as a C-49-DO. In Australia, it was assigned Australian call sign VH-CDF.
Mission History
Disappeared on a flight in Australia.
Daniel Leahy adds:
"According to Baugher's references this information had been provided by a Jean Louis Bleneau. The ADF Serials site does not list this aircraft, though does list that CDB-CDE, CDG, and CDJ-CDK had served with, or had been loaned to the RAAF at one point or another. However the AWM databases have not returned any possible Australian casualties on that date."
References
Thanks to Daniel Leahy and Aerothentic for historical details.
Allied Air Transport Operations SWPA in WWII - Volume One page 333
Serial Number referenced at Joe Baugher's SN
C-49
