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Glenn Miller Conspiracy

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I don't know if this topic should go here or not but it is somewhat conspiratorial.

Ian Punnett had a guest Hunter Downs on Sunday 4/12/09 to discuss his research into the Glenn Miller Conspiracy. I've always been interested in this topic.

Glenn Miller was a very popular big band leader who was enlisted by the US government to form a band and play for the troops during World War 2.

The official version is his plane went missing over the English Channel on Dec.15,1944. It was just him and the pilot. Wreckage and bodies were never found.

However in the intervening years many stories have come forth that contradict the official story.

Hunter Downs research proposes that Miller was actually on a secret mission to broker a piece deal with then head of the German Army Gerd von Rundstedt. However Hitler caught wind of this and sent his "favorite" SS go to man Otto Skorzeny to intercept Miller. And he did.

Miller was then taken to a SS controlled bordello in Paris and unsuccessfully coerced and tortured into helping the SS lead a mission to kill Eisenhower.

His body has never been officially recovered. But there have been stories of him surviving in seclusion till the early 1950's in a vegetative state,(from the torture) somewhere in southern California.

It was very interesting interview. Hunter Downs went into more detail than I can explain here. Discussing what the times were like, his role back then and Millers popularity with American and Germans alike.

Ian read his book and handle the interview well. Callers had some good input as well.

Wondering if anyone else had heard this or have any thoughts...
 
Interesting. I remember hearing many years ago that he had died after accidentally being bombed by the Allies over the English Channel. He was in a plane at the time. Always thought that was a bit unlucky :D.

I also remember hearing that he was sent into Germany to do some spying or something and never made it back out.

Just coming to me now is that I may have read all the above in an issue of Readers Digest ... at my grandmother's place when I was a but a kid ...

But hats all I can add to the original post unfortunately ... not having heard the programme. Would have been one of the few C2C programmes I probably would have listened to as well :D.

Oh and talking about celebrities and the war ... who was the most decorated US soldier in WW2??.

None other than AUDIE MURPHY!!!

(yep that really young looking short cowboy dude !! :D)
 

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I vaguely recall a documentary on Glenn Miller that stated he was shot down by friendly fire over some stretch of water, and in the back of my mind is also the thought they did find the plane... let me google and see if I can get more info, hang on a sec, be right back...
 
rats. nothing. and Wikipedia is not completely reliable, but nothing there as a clue, either.

oh well. back to the original bit, his body was never found... :o
 
AnnetteMarie said:
I vaguely recall a documentary on Glenn Miller that stated he was shot down by friendly fire over some stretch of water, and in the back of my mind is also the thought they did find the plane... let me google and see if I can get more info, hang on a sec, be right back...
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In the interview Hunter Downs discussed this story.

A squadron of British bombers were returning to England from a aborted mission. The bombers would need to dump their bombs before returning to base. According to a navigator on one these bombers he witnessed a small plane struck by one of these bombs. Later hearing of Glenn Miller's fate he put 2 and 2 together and figured it may have been Millers plane.

Possible.

Hunter Downs goes on to explain that bombers would never dump their bombs in the English Channel but rather the North Sea,well away from Millers plane. However if you think of the sheer magintude of air op's over Europe originating from English bases, its not a streach to think that at least a few of these would dump their bombs in the Channel.

The friendly fire scenario is certainly plausible.
 
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