Sighting of Glenn Miller's aircraft shatters WW11 bomb theory

It has baffled historians and sparked numerous conspiracy theories. The disappearance of the legendary US swing musician, Glenn Miller, is one of the greatest wartime mysteries that has remained unsolved to this day. But now a previously unknown sighting of the musician's doomed plane has emerged 68 years on and appears to shatter the main conspiracy theory surrounding his death.

The jazz musician - one of the best selling artists of the 1930s and 1940s - was killed when his light aircraft crashed en route from an English airfield to Paris. Miller - best known for his hit record In the Mood - had been due to give a moral-boosting performance for the troops once in Paris, in December 1944, but he never arrived.

His body and the wreckage have never found.

There were several theories as to what happened - the official line being that Major Miller’s pilot lost control of the Norseman plane in bad fog and crashed into the English Channel. Over the years dozens of other suggestions have been put forward.

But the leading theory is that the pilot flew east of London, accidentally straying into a bomb jettison zone over the Channel, and was struck by an explosive dropped from a Lancaster returning from a raid on Germany. But the discovery of a teenager’s logbook detailing aircrafts in the skies around a Berkshire airfield he worked at the time has shed fresh light on the matter.

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