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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.

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Denton, Gordon E.

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Gordon E. Denton

Preferred Name: Gordon
Nickname/Call Sign: Gordy/Sonny
Date of Birth: February 19, 1943
Highest Military Grade: Select
Biography
Pilot Information

Gordon “Sonny” Denton flew the F-100C from 1963-1968 with the 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the NMANG, then from 1968-6/1969 with the 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron/31st Tactical Fighter Wing out of Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam. He then returned to the NMANG from 1969-1983 flying the F-100 and the A-7 D and K models.

Units Assigned

  • 1963-1968 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron, NMANG (F-100C)
  • 1968-6/1969 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron/31st Tactical Fighter Wing, Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam (F-100C)
  • 1969-1983 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron, NMANG (F-100C, A-7D/K)

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