Re: NNG-WW2 B-24 Disaster/ Veteran

dougvv Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> My father flew B25s in the Pacific. He told me
> once of flying a B25 from Hawaii to
> Fairfield-Susun (SP?) just in the central valley
> near San Francisco.

That would be Travis AFB located next to the twin communities of Fairfied and Suisun City. This is located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento. And only a few miles from The Western Railway Museum on the old Sacramento Northern ROW operated by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association.


> He had just passed the point of no return when the
> fuel from the belly tanks would not go into the
> wing tanks. Long story short, as captain, he flew
> when the crew wanted to bail out. He ran out of
> gas about the time he crossed the coast line and
> made a dead stick at the San Francisco airport (I
> do not know the official name). It was determined
> that it was sabatoge - the fuel line from the
> belly tank pumps tot eh wing tanks had been
> deliberately cut.

Several possible airports. San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and maybe others

Brian Norden