IDOL DISAPPEARS OVER ENGLISH CHANNEL
Paris, December 24, 1944

Americans have apparently lost one of their most beloved music-makers, the band leader Glenn Miller, who left civilian life to play with the Air Force Band.

December 15, 1944, a cold, wet and foggy afternoon, Glenn Miller departed RAF-Base, England in a Norseman C-64 aircraft. The flight was to take Glenn Miller and other passengers to Paris. However, the flight never made it. It is believed the aircraft encountered icing conditions over the English Channel and crashed.

No traces of the aircraft have been found.

Hopes that he might yet turn up were dimmed today when the 40-year old Miller was officially listed as missing and presumed dead.

Glenn Miller and his band had been performing for Allied Troops prior to the crash and was planning on putting on a show in Paris, France.

Glenn Miller and his band was idolized by many during his career. The smoothly understated sound of Miller’s music crystalized with the formation of his second band in 1939.

His recordings of In the Mood, Tuxedo Junction and Moonlight Serenade have become classics.

Despite Miller’s absence, the band is still entertaining the Allied troops at a theater in Paris.

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