The Bedford Project
MISSING

Sat 26th April
14.30
Glenn Miller Museum
Twinwood Control Tower
Twinwood Rd.
Clapham

In Missing, the artists intervention concerned itself with the disappearance of popular band leader, Glenn Miller.

On December 15, 1944, Glenn Miller left Bedford in a plane for Paris, flying over the English Channel, and was never seen again. There are now three theories about how he died. The most accepted one states that the plane crashed due to poor weather conditions. Another one claims that the plane was shot down by another plane of unknown identity flying higher than Miller's.

The third is that he arrived in Paris, only to die of a heart attack, and the media created the story of the plane crash to keep war morale up. We will never know for sure.To commemorate the tragic demise, and last flight, of Glenn Miller, Flight Officer JSR "Nipper" Morgan and Lt.Col. Norman Baesell, Stitt flew above Twinwoods in a light aircraft and dropped 3 red carnations over the former airfield.