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ARTICLE ON BLIND LANDING IN ISSUE MARCH 13 DOES INJUSTICE TO MEMORY OF MY BROTHER MARSHALL S BOGGS IN MISSTATING MANNER OF HIS DEATH STOP THE FATAL CRASH OCCURRED LONG AFTER DARK NOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT STOP HE WAS ENGAGED IN LINE OF DUTY...
Pilot Boggs did not die, as TIME reported, on a "daylight joyhop." With two women guests with whom he was to have dinner, he crashed on an unlit field near Lake Norconian Club Airport. Norco, Calif. That he was testing radio beacons for the Department of Commerce up to the moment of death was testified by the fact that when he was pulled from the wreckage his earphones were still around his neck...
...appeared to be about the size of our Wichita hangar [102 ft. by 270 ft.] and shaped like a ball. It left a deep red trail with a bluish tint, which hung in the sky until obliterated by daylight...
...Japanese mouse is a tiny creature, one of the smallest of mammals. It is usually black-&-white spotted, with eyes that look black in daylight, ruby-colored at night when the fire-red pupils expand. It spends the hours from dusk to midnight dancing, sleeps till dawn. The impulse to dance may seize it any time during the day. Rest periods it passes sleeping, washing, sniffing, eating. Because of its exertions it has to eat & drink much oftener than an ordinary mouse. It is totally deaf...
...barrier crumpled, a 10-ft. crack opened three feet from the tent in which Captain Riiser-Larsen, Hallvard Devoid and Olaw Kjelbotn slept. Outdoors was pitch dark. They returned to their tent, anxiously waiting for daylight...