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2020-03-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Remembering Glenn Miller, who gave soldiers hope

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-02 02:35|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Millers plane is the only one of that type unaccounted for. News report last year discussed some fisherman who pulled a single engine wreck ip in their nets, then cut it loose. Evidently there was some identifying characteristics leading some to believe it was Millers. I believe fund raising is in play fora diveteam.
Love his music

Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-03-02 08:07|| 2020-03-02 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 NYT - R.A.F. BOMBS MAY HAVE DOWNED GLENN MILLER PLANE

Two members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew in World War II believe they can explain one of the unsolved mysteries of the war: the disappearance of the band leader Glenn Miller. The two say they fear the band leader's plane was downed over the English Channel by bombs jettisoned from their own plane as they returned from an aborted mission.

The two - the navigator and pilot - said their four-engine Lancaster bomber was one of some 150 returning from an aborted mission on Dec. 15, l944 - the same day Mr. Miller took off in bad weather from an airfield near Bedford, England, on a flight to Paris, where he was to give a show. The two R.A.F. crewmen said that after the jettisoned bombs exploded, they saw a Norseman aircraft fall into the sea below them, apparently knocked out of the sky by shock waves. The plane carrying Mr. Miller, who was then a Major in the Army and leader of the Army Air Force band, was a Norseman D-64.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-02 08:15|| 2020-03-02 08:15|| Front Page Top

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