Big band conductor, composer, arranger, and popular recording artist Glenn Miller, along with a friend and their pilot, disappeared 80 years ago today. Miller was in France and had experienced two flight cancellations. He was in a hurry to rejoin his unit. A friend invited him on his own flight and so Miller, without official authorization, joined them. The plane is presumed to have crashed into the English Channel but no wreckage was found. The next day, the Battle of the Bulge began, and so it took a few days for officials to figure out that Miller was on that missing flight. His wife Helen was notified on December 23, and a press release went out on December 24.
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