Airplane Crash - English Channel 12/15/1944
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - English Channel
| Date | 12/15/1944 |
| Time | 14:00 |
| Location | English Channel |
| Operator | Military - U.S. Army Air Forces |
| Route | Twinwood, England - Villacoublay, France |
| Type | UC-64A Noorduyn Norseman |
| Registration | 44-70286 |
| Cn/In | 550 |
| Aboard | 3 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Disappeared over the English Channel en route from Bedford England to Paris, France. Band leader and musician Glenn Miller, 40, killed along with flight officer John Morgan and Lt. Colonel Norman Baessell. It has been theorized the plane may have been hit by bombs being jettisoned over the English Channel by RAF bombers on their way home from an unsuccessful raid. Wreckage and bodies were never found. |
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