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| Tony Eaton giving his talk at our local library |
Our local library was recently given a very interesting talk given by Tony Eaton, whose mentor was Wilbur Smith. It followed a trial started by Helen Miller when, along with a lot of Glenn’s fans, she questioned the story of her husband’s disappearance when the plane he was flying in supposedly went down in the English Channel with the false reason that it was lost due to fog.
What started the trail was a document showing that the plane had been lost at sea showing that it and had two passengers on board, plus the pilot, but after careful examination it was proved that Glenn’s name had been typed in with a different typewriter, also the 15th December, the day the plane supposedly went down, was a fine day. It was his friend and manager Don Haynes who gave out the story that he was on that particular plane, though it was purported he had a diary that gave a different story but this is missing. This was the ending given to the film ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ from information gleaned from official sources.
When Glenn first joined the AAF he formed a band of servicemen. Their performances, in America, were exceedingly successful raising a substantial amount of money for war bonds. But Glenn wasn’t satisfied, he wanted to play to American servicemen who were stationed abroad, it was decided to send him to England. Tony pointed out that where he was sent drew suspicion. High Wycombe was very near to Bletchley Park Code Breakers and also two major officers, one of which was in charge of daytime raids the other night time. David Niven who was, according to Tony, in the Secret Service, was his ‘boss’; I haven’t been able to find anything at all on the internet giving any information on the role David Niven played during the war. The story went that the then Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower, along with other major military who decided not to accept a warning from the code breakers and had gone ahead with a plan which they reckoned would end the war. Glenn Miller was to be part of the propaganda, chosen mainly as he was so well known. Glenn’s band was to perform a concert in Paris, they had gone ahead of him. Glenn, had flown to Paris via a different route to that reported using his rightful first name, Alton, which he hated. He then met Eisenhower at a place Eisenhower owned. According to Tony the Germans raided this and, although it was believed the main target was Eisenhower, it was Glenn who was shot. Tony has photos, letters and documents go towards substantiating some of this story.
Helen Miller, had completed a lot of detective work, but strangely suddenly stopped, it was thought that she was bribed with being able to have Glenn’s body to bury to stop her informing the public of more of her findings and discovering more. There is a family plot where, it is thought, Glenn is buried alongside his wife.
I have posted a photograph of a document taken from the internet, which Tony also has a copy of, showing that Alton G Miller died in a hospital in Ohio. My copy comes from a site which claims that Glenn, Alton, died from gunshot wounds administered by a jealous husband when he was in Paris.
Herb Miller claimed his brother died of cancer, through smoking. Certainly when you look at some of the photos Glenn looks as though he’s lost a lot of weight. He reckoned that Glenn hadn’t wanted this fact known.
Another person claims that a bomb jettisoned from a plane returning home after a raid sent shock waves which bought the plane down.
The exact truth will only be known in 2044, when legal documents concerning this mystery are released.
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