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Glenn Miller book clears RAF of accidentally killing band leader

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | 1:11 AM

Research by historian Dennis Spragg suggests that the Lancaster bombers often blamed were 90 minutes too early

The death of Glenn Miller has been one of the enduring unsolved mysteries of the second world war. The US musician’s aircraft vanished over the Channel without trace in 1944 after leaving a British airbase for France. The disappearance of the hottest big-band leader of the era has provoked numerous theories, some wild, with a long-held claim that his plane was brought down by RAF Lancasters jettisoning their bombs over the English Channel.

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