Boggs, W. Russell

Today in History – December 5, 1956 – The “Snark” disappears and is found 27 years later (maybe).

5 December 1956 – A Northrop XSM-62 Snark, 53-8172, N-69D test model, fitted with a new 24-hour stellar inertial guidance system, launches from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. It wanders off-course, ignores destruct command, disappears over Brazil. It is found by a farmer in January 1983. The Day They Lost the Snark By J.

W. Russell Boggs

Preferred Name: Russ

Date of Birth: June 4, 1934

Highest Military Grade: Select

Units Assigned

1957 Gunnery School, Class 57-1, Luke AFB, AZ (F-84F)
Nellis AFB, NV (F-100A)
417^th /10^th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Toul Rosiers AB, France (F-105)
22nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/36^th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-105)
Instructor Pilot, Randolph AFB, TX

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Flight Info

F-84F
F-100 A

Today in History – December 5, 1956 – The “Snark” disappears and is found 27 years later (maybe).

W. Russell Boggs

Units Assigned

Awards & Decorations

Flight Info

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