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There's a summary of one version of what appears to be the real events or something like them, with the usual snide twist from the Straight Dope:

Did band leader Glenn Miller die in a French brothel?
by John Corrado

Here's a small excerpt that gives the general details from Colin Wilson's more complete version:

Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present
by Colin Wilson
...a tape made by a BBC engineer named Teddy Gower, who claimed that he had flown to Paris (Orly) with Glenn Miller from Bovington on Thursday, December 14...in a Dakota and had probably been met by David Niven... World War II veteran... claimed that he had not only known Major Glenn Miller but had been with Miller in a military hospital in Columbus, Ohio, when the bandleader died of head injuries... [Millergate author Wright] was astonished to receive a letter confirming that Alton Glenn Miller, later a resident of New Jersey, had died in Ohio.

Miller's wife, Helen... who had moved [in 1949] to Pasadena... had purchased a six-grave burial plot in nearby Altadena. But the family consisted of only herself and the son and daughter she and Glenn had adopted; there were also her parents, who were, in due course, buried in the plot. Who was the extra grave for? The cemetery officials were asked to deny that Glenn Miller was buried in the plot; it took them fifteen months to do so...

If true, is this important? If true, is it really anyone's business if the family wants to keep the world unaware? If true, they want to keep the world so unaware that they'll never be able to put a gravestone on his grave.

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