'I Kept My Word': Author Reveals Secret Behind Glenn Miller's Death

'I Kept My Word': Author Reveals Secret Behind Glenn Miller's Death

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In "I Kept My Word" (now available through AuthorHouse), author Clarence B. Wolfe (as told to Susan Goodrich Giffin) shares details of his involvement in the death of famous 1940s bandleader Glenn Miller, as well as what he claims is the military's cover-up of Miller's mysterious demise. It all adds up to a secret Wolfe kept for more than 60 years.

In 1944, as a gunner with Battery D, 134th AAA Battalion, Wolfe took his position in Folkestone, England, manning the computer that relayed enemy fighter planes from radar to the guns that shot them down. In the course of receiving target alerts from the British Wrens, young women who were experts at the radar that tracked enemy aircraft, Wolfe became an unwitting participant in the downing of a small plane that carried renowned bandleader Miller to a horrible, untimely death. Upon realization of their actions, which were strictly within the line of duty, Wolfe claims he was sworn to secrecy by his commanding officer, Capt. Foley. In "I Kept My Word," Wolfe details the cover-up of Miller's death by the 8th Army Air Force that has been furthered by the military and media since 1944.

Ever since the accident, Wolfe believed the captain wanted him dead and he had sufficient evidence to support this claim. Foley repeatedly sent Wolfe on high-risk missions: collecting live ammunition on the shores of Normandy, France; and sending him behind enemy lines to spy. Wolfe not only survived these dangerous assignments, as well as a treacherous rescue, but his many brushes with death during the war made him conclude that he survived for a purpose - to tell the true story about what really happened to Glenn Miller. That he kept this secret for 62 years bears great testimony to his personal integrity.

"I Kept My Word" is a definite page-turner as readers share with Wolfe the many experiences of war. However, underscoring all of his exploits was the nagging memory that he had participated in the death of a man whose magical music captured the hearts of soldiers worldwide and softened the blows of war.

As Wolfe approaches the end of his life, now at the age of 82, he feels a responsibility to history to finally break his promise. All the tall-tales and conspiracy theories can now be put to rest, he says, as this 62-year-old secret reveals the truth long shrouded in mystery.

Wolfe grew up the youngest of 11 children, living dirt-poor on a farm in southern Indiana. Whoever said "You can take the man out of the small town, but you can't take the small town out of the man" must have known Wolfe. Whether he was living in the United States, England or Belgium, he was still an Indiana farm boy. After the war, Wolfe served with a number of different units stationed in Germany until 1951, when he married and returned to the U.S. Wolfe is a resident of Bloomington, Ind., and "I Kept My Word" is the author's first book.

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