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Today Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield is the largest air mobility organization in the United State Air Force, but its beginnings are a small one an includes the tragic loss of a commander.

The No. 2 engines propellers werent spinning, and the plane had stopped climbing. In the disorienting dark, the ground suddenly rose up to meet the B-29, which was still going 120 miles an hour when it crashed in a field. A fire ensued, and somewhere in the burning plane, There was a nuclear weapon buried.

On Oct. 28, 1971, Fairfield, California, and Nirasaki, Japan, officially became sister cities. The purpose of the trans-Pacific relationship between the two municipalities was to promote meaningful social, educational, cultural and economic exchanges. Now, 50 years later, it continues to do just tha