I’ve read this before. Heck, Leonard Nimoy might have even covered this on his television show.... (the name escapes me at present).
Personally, these are the convoluted theoretical exercises which usually leads me to trust Ockham’s razor, which isn’t always ideal, however an aerial strike while transiting a bombing range is entirely possible.
Wasn’t an Army General killed in France while observing a carpet bombing demonstration? It also reminds me of the sage advise of the line instructor during grenade day training, “when you the pin Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend”... it’s a short hop to Paris, go around the bombing range... freak accidents occurred almost daily in theater.
I am too young to know first hand but had heard that WWII bombers dropped any unused bombs before landing back home, usually looking for an open field to avoid friendly casualties. This method periodically killed a number of civilians. Maybe this got Miller.
Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair was kiiled during the carpet bombing of the German lines at the start of Operation COBRA, the breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
He was an observer and the bombs were off target.
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To a young boy, that show was pretty scary, except the episode about communicating with plants.
Heck, Nimoy even made Nazca Lines come off as ominous and sinister.
Lieutenant General Leslie J. McNair is the general who was killed during the pre-Operation Cobra bombing.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_J._McNair
http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/mcnair.html
I also wonder why Glenn Miller would have had to been flown into Paris for a secret meeting with the Germans, since the Germans had been chased out of Paris in August, 1944. That also isn’t plausible to me.