On 15 December 1944, bandleader Glenn Miller left RAF Twinwood Farm for Paris in a small military aircraft. It never arrived. The former airfield and his memorial in Cambridgeshire tell a story of wartime music, a missing flight and remembrance without recovered remains.
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15 December 1944
Former RAF Twinwood Farm, Bedfordshire, England
Miller boarded a UC-64A Norseman here with Lieutenant Colonel Norman Baessell. Flight Officer John R. Stuart Morgan was the pilot. They were heading to France as Miller’s band prepared to relocate to Paris. The aircraft did not arrive. The U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency states that the cause of its loss remains unknown. Twinwood’s restored control tower preserves the airfield’s history.
Memorial
Cambridge American Cemetery, Coton, England
Glenn Miller is commemorated on the Wall of the Missing under his military name, Alton G. Miller. This is a memorial to him, not his burial place. His name stands among thousands of others whose absence is recorded here. The cemetery gives the story a place of remembrance without suggesting that the missing aircraft has been located.
