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My father was in Europe fighting... had it on very good authority - that Glenn Miller got into a fistfight with the pilot of the plane- whose wife he was, uh, shtupping. Dad said that the plane landed at its destination sans Miller (tossed out over the channel), and a coverup ensued

Could you elaborate on this any? What was your father's rank?, what kind of specialty or postion did he have? and in what unit or kind of unit was he serving with? And how did he come across this info?

Much thanks,

[IncPen]

My father was a staff Sgt. in the signal corps, and travelled just behind the action all over the European theater setting up and servicing radar sites, which at that time was a somewhat new technology. He crossed paths with all manner of ranks and service types.

Two of his best friends- before and after the war- were in the air corps (one as a door-gunner/photographer with heavy service in Asia and the other was a highly decorated fighter pilot who won several decorations for his defense of Great Britain)

My dad did not discuss much of what he saw in the war, nor did his two friends. The anecdote I related was one of two 'war stories' I ever recalled him relating. I never asked the source of his story, as he mentioned it only once, when I was young.

The other story I recall him telling had to do with him wandering off from his unit in Italy, and coming across a group of GIs who had a young Italian girl amongst them in the forest; she was trading 'favors' for cigarettes. My father had two younger sisters, and told me the sight made him physically ill.