A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 15, 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, ...

Amid the fog of war and the English Channel, America’s most popular big-band leader disappeared 80 years ago this past Sunday. Glenn Miller never conducted “In the Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction” or ...

In this episode of Wars of the World, we delve into the enduring mysteries that still surround the Allied side of World War ...

A U.S. naval pilot has arrived at his final resting place in Salt Lake City, more than eight decades after he was killed in ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago on Aug. 27th, 1944, the great American bandleader Glenn Miller performed at a base some 60 miles north of London, RAF Twinwood, the hub and airfield he frequently flew in and out of ...

As anyone who's recently attended a show by Foreigner or Lynyrd Skynyrd knows, it's become as common as a guitar solo to see a classic rock & roll outfit without any original members in the lineup.