On 15 December 1944, the hugely popular musician Major Glenn Miller boarded a small plane at an RAF base in Bedfordshire. The American army band leader was heading to Paris to cheer on the Allied ...

As Glenn Miller’s musical career soared, he traded in his commercial success for a military uniform to entertain US troops during World War II. Then, on a foggy afternoon, December 15 ...

Chummy MacGregor’s real name, Wilbur Schwichtenberg, was often noted as a humorous juxtaposition to his stage name. Though not as well-known as Glenn Miller himself, Chummy MacGregor's influence ...

Questions about Glenn Miller's family and ancestry are often asked of the Glenn Miller Collections. An important aspect of the Miller Legacy is his real family and ancestral history. This is sometimes ...

The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired ...

The Glenn Miller collections (GMC) are a part of the American Music Research Center’s archival collections, stewarded in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Rare & ...