The Harsh Winters
World War II was a terrible time, and so was the weather in which it was fought. The world saw some of the worst winters to date in the early 1940s. A day after Glen’s plane left English soil, the Germans had begun “ The Battle of the Bulge ” seeing it as an opportune moment to get on the offensive with Allied planes likely to stay on the ground.
Source: Twinwood Airfield. Twinwood Airfield is notable as being the airfield from which Glenn Miller set off on his last journey before being lost over the English Channel. Photo by Peter Roberts CC BY-SA 2.0
Miller and his band members weren’t alone on the plane. They were accompanied by Norman F. Baesell and John Morgan two Lieutenant Colonels. Many conspiracy theorists posit that there was something fishy about the plane taking off in the first place. After all, England was completely socked in, and so was France.