The disappearance of Glenn Miller from Twinwood Airfield on a bleak day in December 1944 is still a mystery today and leaves Twinwood surrounded by intrigue and rumour. www.twinwoodeve...
The Twinwoods site has a lot of mystery and anomalous experiences connected to it. I worked there at Yarls Wood for many years, but prior to that my friend worked on the MoD site. His father was a dog handler there and had an experience, and his colleagues also did. One saw a UFO above one of the buildings, and another witnessed something in a basement he refused to ever talk about. There were also around 8 servicemen who suicided by hanging in some adjacent woods when they discovered they would have to fly over Germany which they were reluctant to do. The whole site has some unpleasant energy.
In the years following this posting, new research has concluded that the original original hypothesis about icing is the most probable reason his plane went down. In particular, the C-64 Miller, Col. Baessell and F/O Morgan were on used a type of carburetor that was known to have icing problems. The AAF had a replacement programme underway but combat and combat-related aircraft obviously had top priority; non-critical planes like a small personnel transport were just repaired in-place and sent back out. To make matters worse, the plane's pilot only had "VFR" (visual flight rules) training and never should have agreed to fly on a day when bad weather was closing in over the Channel. We'll never be 100% certain about what happened, but the combination of a plane with a balky fuel system, near-freezing temperatures, an under-qualified pilot, and lousy weather was certainly a recipe for disaster.
The Twinwoods site has a lot of mystery and anomalous experiences connected to it. I worked there at Yarls Wood for many years, but prior to that my friend worked on the MoD site. His father was a dog handler there and had an experience, and his colleagues also did. One saw a UFO above one of the buildings, and another witnessed something in a basement he refused to ever talk about.
There were also around 8 servicemen who suicided by hanging in some adjacent woods when they discovered they would have to fly over Germany which they were reluctant to do. The whole site has some unpleasant energy.
In the years following this posting, new research has concluded that the original original hypothesis about icing is the most probable reason his plane went down. In particular, the C-64 Miller, Col. Baessell and F/O Morgan were on used a type of carburetor that was known to have icing problems. The AAF had a replacement programme underway but combat and combat-related aircraft obviously had top priority; non-critical planes like a small personnel transport were just repaired in-place and sent back out. To make matters worse, the plane's pilot only had "VFR" (visual flight rules) training and never should have agreed to fly on a day when bad weather was closing in over the Channel.
We'll never be 100% certain about what happened, but the combination of a plane with a balky fuel system, near-freezing temperatures, an under-qualified pilot, and lousy weather was certainly a recipe for disaster.