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In September of 1942, Glenn turned his Chesterfield Radio show over to Harry James and said so long to everyone for the last time before reporting for duty to the US Army a couple of weeks later. A brief audio clip of the end of that show was posted to YouTube recently.

Conspiracy theorists, unfortunately, will never be fully placated, but I’m looking forward to the release of what is being called the “definitive” report on Glenn Miller’s disappearance later this summer. An effort spearheaded by the Glenn Miller Archive at the University of Colorado, they have reviewed a considerable amount of information and documents and hopefully this will resolve a lot of the bunk theories that have floated around pretty much since 1944.

Folks, this is significant. If you want to see a group of people get really stirred up about a topic, get a bunch of Glenn Miller fans together in a room and simply mention a date: December 15, 1944. About the only thing they’ll agree on is that he boarded a plane and was never seen again (though some even argue about whether or not he ever boarded the plane to begin with). What happened to him when that plane faded into the fog, has been part of speculation, rumors, trite theories and crazy “fictional crap” for more than 65 years.

If this report lays any of the conspiracy theories to rest, it’ll be a miracle. It’s definitely long overdue, as there have been too many books in the past few years claiming to have the answers as to what happened to Glenn and each of them have been outrageously off the mark.

The one thing it won’t change, however, is it will not bring Miller back. But maybe it will bring some sense of closure about his untimely death at the age of 40.

It was 25 years ago this week, on May 7, 1986 that the push to have a commemorative stamp issued for Glenn Miller by the US Postal service was begun. Joy Levitt, of Wayne, New Jersey, worked hard at the effort and saw it come to fruition with the stamp being issued on September 11, 1996. The colored pencil artwork – based on a Miller publicity photograph - was done by Bill Nelson.

About two years ago I had put a note up saying I would be adding a blog to this site at some point. After some thought I decided to convert the whole thing over to the very versatile WordPress format. Previously I was utilizing templates which I didn’t set up right in the first place so updating was a pain in the rear. All the sections that were here before are still here (some still need completion) but now I’ll have an easier time of updating the site. I can now also post thoughts and musings on the great music and interesting career and life of Glenn Miller.

Enjoy!