Glenn Miller 

Alton Glenn Miller was born on March 1, 1904 in Iowa USA was an American big-band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. While travelling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Capt. Glenn Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. Miller spent the last night before his disappearance at Milton Ernest Hall, near Bedford. On December 15, 1944, he was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris to make arrangements to move his entire band there in the near future. His plane, a single-engine UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285, departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, on the outskirts of Bedford