Tag: Plane Crash
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Legendary Big Band Leader Captain Glenn Miller’s Plane Would Go Missing Over the English Channel En Route to France for a Concert for American Troops That Had Assisted in the Liberation of Paris. December 15, 1944.
Glenn Miller On this day in history, December 15, 1944, trombonist and legendary big band leader Captain Glenn Miller, the biggest star of the American pop-music scene in the years directly before World War II and a man who set aside his dazzling career right at its pinnacle in 1942 to serve America as leader…