Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2002/01

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Glenn Miller`s disappearance
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 05:47:33 -0500

> > We were shown on British TV at Christmas what seems to be quite a
convincing account on this intriguing subject. The British bombed him! Has
America heard this account yet?

> Yes, a TV documentary espousing this point of view has been shown here.
I'm not sure that it is much more than speculation. Ed Lacy

The British TV account relates that a squadron of Lancaster bombers took off
on the same day as Miller (from another East Anglian airfield) to fly
EastSouthEast on a raid to Germany. It was supposed to be joined by a
squadron of fighter planes (for protection) but they didn`t arrive so the
mission was aborted. Problem. The cargo of bombs could not be flown back
home as that would cause lethal danger to aircraft, men and runway upon
landing, so the course of action was to fly South and then South West where
there was a designated dropping zone in the English Channel between the
south coast of England and the northern coast of France.
Meanwhile Miller had flown directly South and coincided with the bomb
ditching, and flying close to the sea copped the cluster bombs as they were
being dropped from higher up. The weather conditions after further research
were said to have fair visibility, as the British TV account shows an
interview with a flight navigator (now deceased) who relates on camera that
he saw Miller`s plane below. This navigator`s account came across with a
most convincing honesty, which was also backed up by his colleagues who flew
with him. This theory, discounted previously when the English and the
Americans were using different (1 hour different) time, is now further
backed up by the discovery of this, that Miller`s plane was in the dropping
zone at the actual time of the bomb ditching, and not an hour before [or
after, I can`t remember without watching the video again. (But what a joke
that the British & Yanks were using a 1 hour time difference!! - in a bloody
world war!!!)]. Further evidence recalls that there wasn`t another aircraft
similar to Miller`s flying anywhere that day, yet the navigator recognised
the plane type.
I can certainly believe this account more so that a plane coming down in
fog. The fog account must be only speculation anyway. How can a plane come
down in fog, over the flat sea? It can`t, unless it runs out of fuel, or
ditches due to the pilot falling asleep. Flying flocks of birds is possible,
but do they fly in fog. The fog was discounted due to the Lancasters
completing their bomb ditching efficiently without bombing any sea going
traffic.

Is this account similar to what was shown on U.S. TV?
Tony W.

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