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 ...

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 ...

He applied to the Army and was accepted and awarded ... before the war were happy to join his new unit in uniform. With the blessing of Glenn Miller’s family and efforts made by his wife ...

As Glenn Miller’s musical career soared, he traded in his commercial success for a military uniform to entertain US troops during World War II. Then, on a foggy afternoon, December 15 ...