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September 6, 2001 The following biographical information came from PAA Captain Gene Banning: "Charles M. "Chuck" Sims joined Pan American at San Francisco in 1942, in maintenance, later served in Honolulu. He became a flight engineer in January 1945, and was transferred to CNAC at Calcutta in March, 1945. First he was sent to Curtiss-Wright C-46 training at Buffalo, NY. At Calcutta he, along with Fred Pittenger and Bill Sanford, then trained CNAC mechanics on servicing and repairing C-46 aircraft, which CNAC was receiving." (And this too...) January 11, 2002 "I believe this is the Bill Sanford I knew who was a tech crew foreman (maintenance) in PAA until the 1970s. It is Sanford, I know of no Stanford in either CNAC or PAA. Must be same, he returned to San Francisco, then moved to some other stations too. Was a good engineer, as I recall. Thanks, Gene"  Sanford - Shanghai, 1947 Wish we had a better picture of Bill. Do you???  or would like to be added to the CNAC e-mail distribution list, please let the CNAC Web Editor, Tom Moore, know. Thanks! |