Note: Both candidates today are weak — the other video is essentially a channel introduction with no actual content, and this one leans on the #historyshorts tag, suggesting it may be a Short. Picking this as the least bad option because it at least promises a specific historical story.

On December 15, 1944, bandleader-turned-Major Glenn Miller climbed into a single-engine UC-64 Norseman at RAF Twinwood Farm, bound for newly liberated Paris to arrange a Christmas broadcast for Allied troops. The plane, its pilot, and one of the most famous musicians in America simply vanished over the English Channel. No wreckage, no bodies, no distress call.

The mystery has spawned decades of competing theories: icing on the carburetor of a plane not rated for the freezing conditions, a friendly-fire incident from RAF bombers jettisoning unused ordnance into a designated dump zone the Norseman flew through, or engine failure over open water. This video reportedly walks through the timeline and the leading explanations.

It's a rare case where a household-name celebrity became a wartime casualty in circumstances the military never fully resolved — a reminder that even meticulously documented conflicts leave loose ends.