For forty years, Glenn Miller’s death remained an unsolved mystery. In 1984, two members of an RAF bomber crew—the navigator and pilot—came forward with an explanation. On the afternoon of December 15, their four-engine Lancaster was returning from an aborted daylight mission to a marshaling yard in Germany. After their bomb-aimer jettisoned the bombs over the English Channel, the navigator, Fred Shaw, said that he and a gunner—who died in 1983—saw a Norseman aircraft fall from the sky, the victim, apparently, of the concussion created by their discarded bombs, one of them a 4,000-pound
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