The Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller

[Doppelganger]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2654822

greeting all ,i have always been interested in missing planes ,people who fly off into nowhere & this is one of my favorite mysteries ,so where is Glenn Miller?

[Phryne Fisher]

Nice one, Doppel! I didn't know there was a Glenn Miller mystery: very interesting. I love whole the 'friendly fire' concept. Not that damn friendly, what?

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Doppelganger!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2654822

greeting all ,i have always been interested in missing planes ,people who fly off into nowhere & this is one of my favorite mysteries ,so where is Glenn Miller?

"Heaven,
he's in heaven..."

All the best
Jukka

[Shangas]

Alton Glenn Miller, noted big-band bandleader and trombonist, born 1904. Went missing over the English Channel in 1944 on his way to Paris from London to perform in the recently-liberated French capital. He never made it there.

I'm of the opinion that his plane was accidently hit by friendly-fire from returning RAF bombers and that it crashed somewhere in the Channel.

[cats meat man]

Only to resurface years later on Jive Bunny albums at wedding discos
'Oh Yes,still got the moves son,still got the moves...'

[Celesta]

Hi Jukka,

I love that song! I have a boxed set of music that was popular in the '30s and '40s, and I really love listening to it. I try to imagine my grandparents, and parents listening and dancing to it. They had class in those days.

Best,

Cel

[anna]

Hi Cel,
Don't forget the line painted down the back of the leg out of gravy browning, to make it look like the ladies were wearing stockings!!...
That's if they hadn't found a nice young yank to help them out.......
of the situation.......and the stockings when they got 'em!!!

I love a bit of Glenn Miller...get's you right "In the Mood".

Pennsylvania 65-000!

His music was a true gift,at a time when it was most needed.

[Celesta]

HI Anna,

The women here used eyebrow pencils. So strange!

Did you ever see a documentary in which a modern family tries to live exactly the way a family in London did during the Blitz? I can't remember the name of it but it was quite good. I think there were about 4 episodes. There was an older woman, her daughter and sons, and the husbands who were supposed to be away at war, I think. It really drove it home what the people went through during the war. Not just the bombings but the fact that everything was running out. I can imagine how much relief listening to the radio must have been.

Bougie-wougie? Or is it boogie-woogie?

[sdreid]

I still have my sugar ration stamps. That didn't end until late 1946.

[BillyE]

I have to say I'm surprised there hasn't been the kind of search for Glenn Miller there has been for Amelia Earhart. He was arguably more famous than she was, and disappeared in much the same way. Someone should try to find Miller's plane.

[anna]

Hi Cel

I think the programme you are talking about is "The 1940's House". There was a series of them,where the programmes were set in different decades.
I loved that programme..and I agree,it does bring it all home to you.
Have you seen some programmes or films on a series called "Dad's Army"?
Which is set in a fictitional seaside town called Warmington on Sea,during the Second World War... it's about the Home Guard,who were a group of men who were exempt from signing up.I think you'd love it..

I bet it took them ages to get those lines straight,up the backs of their legs.
Mind you,I suppose it got easier the more times they attempted it!!

I think it's Boogie Woogie???
Boogie Woogie bugle boy of Company B!!....unless others know different?

Just thinking about the 50's music,makes me wanna Jive,Cel.

Catch you later,
ANNA.

[Jeff Leahy]

Dont tell 'im Pike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwldGmw4yDo&feature=related

Pirate

[Robert]

Re finding Glenn Miller's plane, the writer and aviator Saint-Exupery's plane went down off the coast of France in 1944, and bits of it were only recently discovered - by chance, if I remember correctly, by a fisherman.

[Shangas]

Boogie-Woogie. That's how it's spelt. And yes, the show is called The 1940s House. I only watched the first few episodes, I wish I could have finished watching it. It was incredibly interesting. And fun, too.

[Graham]

Glenn Miller's music always reminds me of the severe austerity of post-war Britain, of an unnecessarily-strict upbringing, Two-Way Family Favourites of a Sunday lunchtime, and eternal thanks to Bob Dylan and to whoever introduced me to the Blues in the 1960's....

Cheers,

Graham