“The rear gunner, who was looking around all the time, saw it tip up and go into the sea,” Victor Gregory, the pilot, told a New York Times reporter. When Gregory was asked why he had not disclosed this information sooner, he said he had forgotten about the incident until Shaw contacted him, and had failed to connect it with Miller’s disappearance, which had not been reported for nine days after he left England. Fred Shaw said his curiosity was first aroused in 1954 after seeing the Hollywood film of Glenn Miller’s life, starring Jimmy Stewart.
