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    Glenn Miller Declassified
    Glenn Miller Declassified
    Glenn Miller Declassified
    Audiobook14 hours

    Glenn Miller Declassified

    Written by Dennis M. Spragg

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been found. To this day Miller, Baessell, and the pilot, John Robert Stuart Morgan, are classified as missing in action.

    Weaving together cultural and military history, Glenn Miller Declassified tells the story of the musical legend Miller and his military career as commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band during World War II. After a brief assignment to the Army Specialist Corps, Miller was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command and soon thereafter to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, in the UK. Later that year Miller and his band were to be transferred to Paris to expand the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, but Miller never made it.

    Miller's disappearance resulted in numerous conspiracy theories, especially since much of the information surrounding his military service had been classified, restricted, or, in some cases, lost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781541485693
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    • 3/5
      While the author did an extraordinary job of research, it was not translated into a highly readable book. Several of the "abbreviations" used were not mentioned in the glossary and repeating aircraft numbers just made you skip those parts. The most interesting part of the book was that Miller was missing for 3 days before anyone even realized he was missing.
    • 3/5
      When I first saw this book, I was somewhat excited to read the story of Glenn Miller. As a great fan of Big Bands, and Glenn's own 'swing' music, it was a chance to read more about the mystery surrounding his death.When he was lost over the English Channel, no trace was ever found of the plane carrying him or the three occupants. I believed by the title - Glenn Miller Declassified - I would learn something new. Alas, such was not the case.The book, while quite a nice size, is full of technical information only interesting to those who actually care about technical information. I, for one, couldn't care less about 'white form number 5' or anything similar. There was far too much of this and far too little of any information that is already known.There is no mystery to be explained. It is, indeed, hard to explain everything included, but we are given quite a bit of information on his associates and their routines and very little on Mr. Miller himself and his life at home, and not a lot about the band, aside from their military duties.While quite a lot of research has been done, I feel that this is a book more aimed toward those interested in the military of World War II. As for those who might be interested in Glenn Miller, unfortunately there isn't anything new to discover.