History Music / GlennMiller

[[caption-width-right:275:That jukebox is probably playing one of his own records.]]

Also notable for being a RealLife example of NeverFoundTheBody. When UsefulNotes/WorldWarII broke out, he volunteered for service, but he was considered too old (and, perhaps, too famous) for active duty, and was instead commissioned a Captain in the Army Air Force, assigned to [[GlamorousWartimeSinger entertain the troops]]. Officially declared missing in action when his plane disappeared around the English Channel during a flight to France in bad weather, he was eventually pronounced dead in absentia. Historians ascribe the event to the type of plane Miller was traveling in being infamously failure-prone in cold conditions, meaning he most likely met his end in the Channel after his plane shorted out, while the fact that his disappearance went unnoticed for 72 hours (due in part to the Germans launching the Battle of the Bulge counteroffensive the following morning) meant that any recovery effort would have been downright impossible. As with any situation in which a [[NeverFoundTheBody body is never recovered]], Miller's disappearance would spawn several UrbanLegends about the true cause of his death being covered up by the US Military for various purported reasons, ranging from the RAF having [[FriendlyFire accidentally shot down his plane]], to his being assassinated while on a top-secret mission for UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower to negotiate a German surrender, to his succumbing to a heart attack [[OutWithABang while in bed with a French prostitute]].

[[caption-width-right:275:That jukebox is probably playing one of his records.]]

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – circa December 15, 1944) was an American bandleader popular in the Swing and BigBand era of the 1930s and '40s. He's the subject of a major 1950s biopic, ''Film/TheGlennMillerStory'', in which he was played by Creator/JimmyStewart.