Did band leader Glenn Miller die in a French brothel?
Dear Straight Dope: For many years now my mother and I have had a running argument about the facts surrounding the death of bandmaster Glenn Miller. Miller, who was famous for the song “A String of Pearls” among others, was in the U.S. Army Air Force and was supposed to have died in a plane crash. But there seems to be a lot of evidence that Miller may have died in a bar fight in a French brothel. All of the people who surrounded Miller in his last days remained tight-lipped about Miller’s death. Actor David Niven was one of Miller’s best friends and his sole job job in the military was setting up the Miller band’s appearances. But Niven never even mentioned Miller in his autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon. Mom says Miller crashed–I say there is something funny going on. What gives? — Johnny On the afternoon of December 15th, 1944, Maj. Glenn Miller boarded an RAF Norseman C-64 aircraft. The plane left an RAF base in England to take Miller to Paris, where he would join up with the res
Dear Straight Dope: For many years now my mother and I have had a running argument about the facts surrounding the death of bandmaster Glenn Miller. Miller, who was famous for the song “A String of Pearls” among others, was in the U.S. Army Air Force and was supposed to have died in a plane crash. But there seems to be a lot of evidence that Miller may have died in a bar fight in a French brothel. All of the people who surrounded Miller in his last days remained tight-lipped about Miller’s death. Actor David Niven was one of Miller’s best friends and his sole job job in the military was setting up the Miller band’s appearances. But Niven never even mentioned Miller in his autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon. Mom says Miller crashed — I say there is something funny going on. What gives? — Johnny On the afternoon of December 15th, 1944, Maj. Glenn Miller boarded an RAF Norseman C-64 aircraft. The plane left an RAF base in England to take Miller to Paris, where he would join up with the re
