Glenn Miller's Air Force Odyssey

摘要

ON Dec. 15, 1944, it had been raining in England for three days. The regular military shuttle flights to France were canceled. Maj. Glenn Miller waited impatiently, eager to get to Paris to make arrangements for a Christmas performance by his Army Air Forces band. When the opportunity arose to hitch a ride across the English Channel on a small single-engine airplane, he leapt at it. The aircraft was a UC-64 Noorduyn Norseman, the military version of a Canadian bush plane. Miller did not fully understand the risk he was taking, nor did he know that the pilot was exceeding his clearance, which was for local flying only.