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...General Travis was killed on 5 August 1950 .... Fairfield-Suisun AFB was officially renamed Travis Air Force Base on 20 April 1950, in his honor.
The second year must be wrong, The Travis AFB page mentions the name changing in 1951, which would make more sense, honoring him after his death.
208.107.114.145 ( talk) 04:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
To user 70.240.213.105 (Robert L. Duquette):
Thanks for your edit about the B29 crash that killed General Travis. However, I'm moving it here, because Wikipedia has a policy of "No Original Research". You can read about it here: WP:NOR. Essentially it says all edits to Wikipedia must be supported by reliable published sources.
Here's the edit:
There's a description of the crash on the Travis Air Force Base page (History section, 6th paragraph). It's supported by these two published sources:
The sources say that it was not a training mission, but a live mission to carry a nuclear weapon to the eastern Pacific, because of an escalation in the Korean War. The nuclear weapon was carried on two planes. General Travis' B29 carried the outer casing, including the 5000 lbs. of high explosives, but the uranium core was carried on another plane at another time and route. A nuclear explosion is only possible if the core is installed in the casing, so no nuclear explosion could have occurred. However the high explosives ignited 20 minutes after the crash, killing several more people. User:Davemck ( talk) 19:15, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Auntieruth55 ( talk · contribs) 19:19, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
I'll do this in the next couple of days!
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At one read through, I noted a missing comma, but now I cannot find it. Nice article. I can probably find the citation on his descent from guy at Alamo if you want it. auntieruth (talk) 14:04, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
This article has failed its Good article nomination. This is how the article, as of March 23, 2017, compares against the six good article criteria:
interesting, thanks for the article!
When these issues are addressed, the article can be renominated. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to have it reassessed. Thank you for your work so far.— auntieruth (talk) 19:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)