It was Christmas Day, 1944, when people heard the news: Glenn Miller, one of music’s biggest stars, had vanished.

He had boarded a military plane from Britain, bound for Paris, where he was scheduled to perform for American troops during World War II. But neither crew nor passengers made it across the English Channel.

There is no wreckage of Glenn Miller’s plane, and no definitive answers. Eighty years ago this week, he disappeared without a trace.

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