For those who weren't sure, the U.S. Air Force has issued a terse press release insisting that band leader Glenn Miller died in a plane crash in the English Channel.
"A German newspaper, Bild, claims it knows the `true' cause of death," the statement says, referring to the tabloid-like paper's story that Miller died of a heart attack in the arms of a French prostitute in 1944."The report is incorrect," the Air Force said. "All known facts indicate that Maj. Miller died on Dec. 15, 1944, when his plane crashed into the English Channel, as originally reported."
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