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.
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This article is about the jazz musician. For other uses, see Glenn Miller (disambiguation).
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Glenn Miller
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alton Glenn Miller |
| Born | March 1, 1904 Clarinda, Iowa, United States |
| Died | December 15, 1944 (aged 40) Plane missing over the English Channel |
| Genres | Swing music, big band |
| Occupation(s) | Bandleader, Musician, Arranger, Composer |
| Instruments | Trombone |
| Years active | 1923–1944 |
| Associated acts | Glenn Miller Orchestra, Beryl Davis |
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]
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