Musik har alltid piggat upp i militära sammanhang, under WW II var den mest kända orkestern för de allierade trupperna
Glenn Miller Big Band. Han och hela bandet tillhörde USAAF.
I Klippet ovan,spelas "St. Louis Blues March" av hans orkester.
Här är unika filmklipp !
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing in action
[1] December 15, 1944) was an American
big band musician, arranger, composer, and
bandleader in the
swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known
big bands. Miller's notable recordings include "
In the Mood", "
Moonlight Serenade", "
Pennsylvania 6-5000", "
Chattanooga Choo Choo", "
A String of Pearls", "
At Last", "
(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "
American Patrol", "
Tuxedo Junction", "
Elmer's Tune", and "
Little Brown Jug".
[2] While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during
World War II, Glenn Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.
I klippet ovan spelas "Stardust"
Miller spent the last night before his disappearance at the Hall in
Milton Ernest, near
Bedford.
On December 15, 1944, Miller was to fly from the United Kingdom to
Paris, France, to play for the soldiers there. His plane, a
single-engined
UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285, departed from
RAF Twinwood Farm in
Clapham, on the outskirts of Bedford and
disappeared while flying over the
English Channel.
[90] There were two others on board the plane: Lt. Col. Norman Baessell and pilot John Morgan.
A 2014 article in the
Chicago Tribune reported that, despite many theories that had been proposed, Miller's plane crashed because it had a faulty
carburetor.
The plane's engine had a type of carburetor that was known to be
defective in cold weather and had a history of causing crashes in other
aircraft by icing up.
[91]
The theory that the plane was hit by a bomb jettisoned by Allied planes
returning from an aborted bombing raid on Germany is discredited by the
log of a plane-spotter that implies that the plane was heading in a
direction that would avoid the zone where such bombs were jettisoned.
[92]
When Miller disappeared, he left behind his wife, the former Helen Burger, originally from
Boulder, Colorado, and the two children they had adopted in 1943 and 1944, Steven and Jonnie.
[93] In February 1945, Helen Miller accepted the
Bronze Star medal for Miller.
[94]
UC-64 Norseman
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R.I.P. Mr. Miller
In the mood
Det finns en spelfilm,
The Glenn Miller Story 1954 (eller Moonlight Serenade) med James Stewart i hr.