Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2002/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Glenn Miller`s disappearance
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 06:23:50 -0500

How would this navigator have known *at the time* that Miller was even
in a plane?
Roger S.

In message <004e01c1950d$88d10e00$6233e150@-----.org writes:
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> > > 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?
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> > 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
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> 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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