Comments by "wayne antoniazzi" (@wayneantoniazzi2706) on "Did the British Kill Glenn Miller?" video.

  1.  @wexfordgirl1  Actually Pennsylvania Station was built in the "Beaux Arts" style of architechture as Grand Central Terminal was. It was a popular style around the turn of the 20th Century and pre-dated Art Deco. But I see your point, it was sad to lose it.
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  2. Yes, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and "The Big Bopper." The day the music died. They shouldn't have been flying either. If there was room for one more Waylon Jennings would have been killed too.
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  3. The Norseman aircraft was known to have carburetor icing problems in bad weather. Quite frankly they were flying in weather they shouldn't have been, but how does a lieutenant pilot say "We're not flying today gentleman!" to a lieutenant colonel and a major? I was told nowadays USAF VIP flights are piloted by colonels or lieutenant colonels, long-term pilots filling a last assignment before retiring. Those ranks and their status makes it impossible for them to be "bullied" into doing something they shouldn't. I'm not saying Miller's pilot was bullied, but he MAY have been a bit intimidated by who his passengers were, enough to ignore his own best judgement. Truly sad, of all the Big Band leaders Glen Miller was the best!
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  4.  @Poisson4147  Flight Officer was a category similar to the US Army's and Marine Corps Warrant Officer. A WO is a commisioned specialist, in this particular case a pilot but WO's are typically found in technical fields. They're given the respect due to commisioned officers but are limited to their area of expertise, that is they don't command troops in the field although they may head up technical sections.
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  5.  @MarkFeltonProductions  They weren't Doctor, back in the 1960's when Pennsylvania Station was demolished. It's a long complicated story but the demolition of Penn Station is what started the urban preservation movement here in the US, it was a shocking "wake-up call." In a sense, Pennsylvania Station had to die so New York's Grand Central Station could live. Nowadays, buildings given historic landmark status, while not completely protected from demolition, get a little breathing space for possible adaptation before the wreckers show up.
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  6. It's Glenn Miller's most famous and popular piece, "In The Mood."
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  7. The Battle Of The Bulge started concurrantly with Miller's disappearance, so the high command of the Western Allies were a little distracted by events, to put it mildly.
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  8. Without going into too much detail on another site I mentioned my own theory of Baby Boomers having a syndrome I call "World War Two Envy." All agreed. I won't go into details about my theory unless others are interested, but your comment of "...a nostalgia for an era most of us were not part of" made me think of my theory.
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  9.  @joegordon5117  Now now, I never presumed you were a Boomer as I am, nor do I assume you have WW2 Envy, but let me explain myself. Looking back at the WW2 era, and even though we knew of the horrors and heartbreak of the same, Boomers like myself also saw other things. It was a time of giants and leaders you could look up to. Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshall, Nimitz, Halsey, I could go on and on. The bad guys were REAL bad guys like Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and others. (Stalin. Good guy? Bad guy? Couldn't be sure.) It was a time of a "Black-and-white" cause with no ambiguity. Not so with Boomers in the Vietnam Era. And our leaders of THAT time? No way they matched the WW2 ones. WW2 also seemed to us to be a time when the whole country pulled together to accomplish a mission. I don't have to tell you what the 1960's were like. And now we come to the music of the era. MORE giants. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Harry James, and so many others who's music sounded just as good 30 years later as it did in the 1940's. And the great machines of the time like the B-17, the P-51, the Spitfire, the great aircraft carriers and battleships, the Sherman tank, all legends in their own right. And think about the classic films made at the time and their larger-than-life stars! "Turner Classic Movies" is so successful for a very good reason. Add all this together and we couldn't help but think we missed something unique that would never come again. And it wasn't for nothing that one of my favorite aviation historians, Edward Jablonski, a WW2 combat veteran and no wet-behind-the-ears kid called the era "The bittersweet years of war." They weren't all good by a long shot, but they weren't all bad either. (Depending who and where you were of course.) And somehow, considering the popularity of WW2-themed video games I think there's still a slight bit of WW2 envy in the current generation. I hope I've explained myself. As I said, I stated all of the above on another site, and all who read it of the Boomer generation (including one psychologist) agreed with me.
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  10. Yes they do, the velocity of the bomb and the shock of hitting the water (which can be almost as solid as a wall, ever "belly flop" into a pool?) is usually enough to trigger the detonator. This is not to say duds can't happen, they happen on dry land as well.
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  11.  @ronaldderooij1774  I suppose the fact that we don't "hear" from them all that often means they're not that much of a concern. Occasionally one is found close inshore and disposed of promptly.
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