On September 27, 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra gave their last performance. America’s number one band was breaking up because its leader, who was the nation’s most popular musician, was joining ...

Spragg's book Glenn Miller Declassified, the crash was attributed to "pilot error, mechanical malfunction and weather," ...

Glenn Miller was a trombone player ... In 1942, after the US was drawn into the war, Miller became a US Army Air Force captain and the leader of an army band, helping to bolster morale among ...

Several hours after the band touched down, Army lieutenant Don Haynes, their manager, tried to find information on Miller's ...

On 15 December 1944, the hugely popular musician Major Glenn Miller boarded a small plane at an RAF base in Bedfordshire. The American army band leader was heading to Paris to cheer on the Allied ...

At the height of his career, Glenn Miller enlisted in the service in 1942 with the intent to modernize the military bands and improve morale. The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band played more than 800 ...

But his star didn't fade. The Glenn Miller Story, a dramatization of his life starring Jimmy Stewart, was a box office smash in 1954. And while the Army Air Forces Band played its last concert in ...

Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The date was March 1, 1904 and the town was Clarinda. The boy ...