ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Most of the members of this forum are not old enough
to remember Glenn Miller, his band or his music. I am
very fortunate to have an album of his Air Corps band
(on 45 RPM records). To me it's priceless. He went
"missing" in 1944 and no trace was ever found.
The story goes like this:
On December 15, 1944, Major Glenn Miller, was scheduled
to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris to play for the soldiers
who had recently liberated Paris. His plane departed from RAF
Twinwood Farm, Clapham, Bedfordshire, but disappeared over
the English Channel and was never found. Miller's disappearance
remains a mystery; neither his remains nor the wreckage of his
plane (a single-engined Noorduyn Norseman UC-64, USAAF Tail
Number 44-70285) were ever recovered from the water. (Clive
Ward's discovery of a Noorduyn Norseman off the coast of
Northern France in 1985 was unverifiable and contained no
human remains.)
It is now thought more than likely that Glenn Miller's plane
was accidentally bombed by RAF bombers over The English
Channel, after an abortive air raid on Germany and short on
fuel dumping four thousand pounds of bombs in a safe drop
zone to lighten the load. The logbooks of Royal Air Force pilot
Fred Shaw record that a small mono engined plane was seen
to spiral out of control and crash into the water.
Charles
to remember Glenn Miller, his band or his music. I am
very fortunate to have an album of his Air Corps band
(on 45 RPM records). To me it's priceless. He went
"missing" in 1944 and no trace was ever found.
The story goes like this:
On December 15, 1944, Major Glenn Miller, was scheduled
to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris to play for the soldiers
who had recently liberated Paris. His plane departed from RAF
Twinwood Farm, Clapham, Bedfordshire, but disappeared over
the English Channel and was never found. Miller's disappearance
remains a mystery; neither his remains nor the wreckage of his
plane (a single-engined Noorduyn Norseman UC-64, USAAF Tail
Number 44-70285) were ever recovered from the water. (Clive
Ward's discovery of a Noorduyn Norseman off the coast of
Northern France in 1985 was unverifiable and contained no
human remains.)
It is now thought more than likely that Glenn Miller's plane
was accidentally bombed by RAF bombers over The English
Channel, after an abortive air raid on Germany and short on
fuel dumping four thousand pounds of bombs in a safe drop
zone to lighten the load. The logbooks of Royal Air Force pilot
Fred Shaw record that a small mono engined plane was seen
to spiral out of control and crash into the water.
Charles
