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Glenn Miller Disappeared in 1944 — Plane Might Have Been Located
Glenn Miller went missing on Dec. 15, 1944, during a flight across the English Channel. What happened to him? His plane might have been found.
Glenn Miller was one of the greatest musicians of his age, but a tragedy cut his career short.
Glenn Miller
In the 1940s, big band leader Glenn Miller was all the rage, and his orchestra was at the top of the charts. The Glenn Miller Orchestra had more hits than Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
But Miller’s music career was short-lived. The bandleader went missing on Dec. 15, 1944, during a flight across the English Channel. His disappearance is considered one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, along with the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
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What happened to Glenn Miller?
Glenn Miller
At the time of his disappearance, Miller was enlisted in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He put his musical career on hold in 1942 to join the U.S. forces battling the Axis in Europe. While serving in the Army, Miller was named Director of Bands, and he formed the Army Air Forces Band.
General Dwight Eisenhower summoned Glenn Miller to Europe to help boost morale.
Major-General Dwight Eisenhower in 1942
With Miller at the lead, the Army Air Forces Band toured the U.S. to garner support for the war effort. Then, in 1943, Miller was summoned by General Dwight Eisenhower to put together entertainment for the U.S. troops in England.
Miller took his 60-member band across the pond in June 1944. Being closer to the front lines of the war, Miller and his band members had some close calls when the Germans bombed parts of the U.K.
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Following the invasion of France, Glenn Miller was set to play for Allied troops in Paris on Christmas Day in 1944.
Glenn Miller
Miller’s band was scheduled to perform for Allied troops in Paris on Christmas Day in 1944 and he planned to get to Paris early to coordinate accommodations, but the weather wasn’t cooperating. After two of his flights on Dec. 13 and 14 were canceled due to bad weather, Miller was able to hitch a ride on a Dec. 15 flight with his friend Colonel Norman Baessell.
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However, Miller’s plane never arrived in Paris after departing from the United Kingdom.
Glenn Miller
The flight wasn’t formally approved, as per standard military protocol, and Miller wasn’t officially listed on the flight manifest, so it wasn’t until the band arrived in Paris on Dec. 18 and Miller wasn’t there that an investigation started into his whereabouts.
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Miller was officially declared dead in December 1945, with his plane never being located.
Glenn Miller
Miller’s disappearance was officially announced to the press on Dec. 24, 1944. On Christmas Day, the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra performed in Paris without him.
Miller was officially declared dead in December 1945. Today, it remains a mystery as to what happened to his plane as it flew over the English Channel. It’s unknown whether the plane went down due to German fire, friendly fire, weather conditions, or mechanical failure.
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Glenn Miller’s net worth was in the millions at the time of his death.
It’s estimated that Miller had a net worth of about $5 million at the time of his death. After his disappearance, he was given the Bronze Star Medal, and his official memorial headstone is located at Arlington National Cemetery.
Miller’s music is still played around the world today. Three of his recordings – “Moonlight Serenade,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” and “In The Mood” — were posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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A fisherman claims he may have found Miller’s plane in 1987.
In 2019, reports circulated that Miller’s plane may have been found by a fisherman trawling the English Channel in 1987. When the fisherman told the Coast Guard what he’d found, they told him it was probably a “war grave” and to get rid of it, so he left it at the bottom of the English Channel, CBS reported in 2019.
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It’s believed that Glenn Miller’s plane crashed somewhere in the English Channel.
“In 1987 trawling in the English Channel, he pulled up an airplane wreck that he later realized looked like the kind of airplane that Glenn Miller disappeared in. He called the Coast Guard and described it. They said, ‘Well, if it’s a World War II plane it might be a war grave, just get rid of it,’” Ric Gillespie from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery explained.
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The fisherman didn’t know the importance of the discovery at the time, and was told to leave the potential grave alone.
Glenn Miller
The fisherman made a note of where he found the plane, but it wasn’t until years later that he saw a picture of what Miller’s Norseman aircraft looked like and realized that the wreckage he found might be of the plane that Miller was in.
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Miller’s plane was the only one of its type to go missing during the war.
Glenn Miller
Gillespie, who is also searching for Amelia Earhart’s missing plane, said that it should be easy to confirm the aircraft was the one that Miller was on. It was the only aircraft of its body and engine type to be reported missing during the war.
“You find the steel tube fuselage, you find the engine, you found the Miller airplane,” Gillespie said.
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Gillespie isn’t too optimistic about the report, though.
Glenn Miller
“Once you say, ‘We’re going to go out and find the Glenn Miller airplane,’ everyone holds their breath,” says Gillespie. “But it’s a c——–. This stuff is really hard and there’s a good chance you’re going to get skunked! That’s what this game is like. You can’t find something if you don’t try to find it but that’s the call we’re going to have to make.”
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For now, Gillespie is trying to dispel some common myths around Miller’s disappearance.
Glenn Miller
“Right now, if you really look at the facts of the case, there really isn’t much doubt at all that the airplane went down in the English Channel,” says Gillespie. “They probably just iced up and went into the channel. But we don’t know. With a mystery as popular and iconic as the Miller disappearance, there will always be conspiracy theories and adherence to other theories. Finding the wreckage answers the question finally. You can say, ‘There it is. We can now put that to bed.’ That’s what we’re out to do: replace mystery with documented history.”
Who is Rubber Ducky on Season 10 of ‘The Masked Singer’? From clues and guesses to the big reveal, here’s everything we know about Rubber Ducky.
It’s that time of the year again — yes, we’re talking about The Masked Singer! The reality singing competition series is back for its 10th season, and Fox is going all out to celebrate the milestone.
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With Season 10 officially underway, we can’t help but try to guess the identity of the performers, including the squeaky clean Rubber Ducky. With that said, who is Rubber Ducky on The Masked Singer? Read on to find out!
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Rubber Ducky on ‘The Masked Singer’ — The Clues
There’s very little information about Rubber Ducky on social media, but the Season 10 premiere offered fans many clues about the celebrity behind the mask:
- VHS tape with the title The Horror! 3–4
- Tried standup comedy (“It wasn’t for me.”)
- Picture of Leonardo DiCaprio
- Gold turtle figurine
- ‘Behind everything I do is my family.’
- A signed picture of a rubber duck family featuring three adult ducks (one wearing a blue hat, one wearing glasses), and three baby ducks. Rubber Ducky then said, “My family is full of stars. Check out the headshot.”
Rubber Ducky on ‘The Masked Singer’ — The Guesses
As expected, the guesses started rolling in. So, who’s under the Rubber Ducky mask?
Robin, who based his guess around the famous family clue, is convinced that Rubber Ducky is David Arquette. The actor, best known for his role as Dewey Riley in the beloved slasher film franchise Scream, is the younger brother of Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette.
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As for Jenny, she believes Rubber Ducky is one of the many Wayans brothers. They come from a wildly popular show-business family, and some of their works include the Scary Movie film series, The Wayans Bros., In Living Color, White Chicks, and My Wife and Kids.
Ken guessed Anthony Anderson, which seemed to fit all of the clues pretty nicely.
So, who is Rubber Ducky on ‘The Masked Singer’? The answer is…
Rubber Ducky was revealed to be Anthony Anderson, meaning Ken guessed it correctly! Pretty impressive!
Catch new episodes of The Masked Singer on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST on FOX.
Following the news of Michael Gambon’s death, many want to learn more about the actor’s personal life, including who his wife and children were.
The Gist:
- Legendary Irish stage and screen actor Michael Gambon has died at the age of 82.
- Michael has been married to his wife Anne, for more than 60 years, but he also had at least one girlfriend outside his marriage that produced two children who were born in 2007 and 2009.
- Michael had three children in total, including an older child that he had with Anne.
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On Sept. 28, 2023, news broke that actor Michael Gambon, who is best known for taking over the role of Dumbledore in most of the Harry Potter films, had died at the age of 82. Following the news of his death, many offered their thoughts on his legacy as an actor and the many huge roles he played.
At the same time, some people also wanted to learn more about Michael’s personal life, including who his wife was and whether he had any children. Although he wasn’t one of the more sensational celebrities in Hollywood history, here’s everything we know about Michael’s family.
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Who was Michael Gambon’s wife?
Michael married his wife Anne Miller in 1962 when he was 22 years old. Anne is a mathematician, and as a result, the two were very private about their relationship. In fact, if Michael was asked about his wife in interviews, he would sometimes pretend that he didn’t have one. The two appear to have still been married at the time of Michael’s death, although their marriage had gotten more complicated in recent years.
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In 2001, while filming Gosford Park, Michael brought a woman named Philippa Hart to set and introduced her as his girlfriend. The news that Michael was cheating on Anne became official in 2002, and he moved out of the home that they shared. Michael and Philippa had reportedly begun dating in 2000 while working on the Channel 4 series Longitude together. The two have been together ever since.
Did Michael Gambon have any kids?
Michael had one child with Anne named Fergus who eventually became a ceramics expert and started appearing regularly on Antiques Roadshow. After becoming estranged from Anne, Michael had two children with Philippa. Their first child together was born in 2007, and was named Tom, and their second was born in 2009 and named Will.
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What was Michael Gambon’s cause of death?
The news of Michael’s death was first announced on Sept. 28 in a brief statement from his family.
“Michael died peacefully in hospital with his wife, Anne, and son Fergus at his bedside, following a bout of pneumonia,” the statement explained, which suggests that pneumonia was the ultimate cause of death.
Michael first made his breakthrough as a British stage actor in the 1970s and had a long career in the theater in addition to his more high profile film and TV work. Although many Americans will only know him as the more controversial performer to play Dumbledore, his career contained much more than that single performance.
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