80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved

80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved toggle caption D. Hess/Getty Images/Hulton Archive It was Christmas Day, 1944, when people heard the news: Glenn Miller, one of music's biggest stars, had vanished. "There's a lot of swell guys in the outfit I'm going in," he said to the audience during a performance, "and maybe all of us can get together again after this thing's over." Sponsor Message "This was a lot of hard work, a lot of hard times, a lot of bad, dangerous traveling, and it wasn't clear that he was going to make it as a band leader," NPR's Noah Adams said in 2002. And while the Army Air Forces Band played its last concert in 1945, its successor, The Airmen of Note, continues to perform Miller's songs for fans around the world.