Shoo Shoo Baby - Glenn Miller with the Crew Chiefs

"Glenn Miller and his Orchestra" essentially existed from 1937 until the end of September 1942. In OCT42 he was commissioned a Captain in the US Army and, subsequently was detatched to the US Army-Air Forces shortly thereafter.

By April of 1943 Captain Glenn Miller had organised his famous AAF "Band," specifically the Army-Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) Orchestra that was billeted at Yale University and performed on the weekly I Sustain The Wings broadcasts until 10JUN44. The vocal group for the AAFTC Orchestra was named The Crew Chiefs due to the relationship of the Training Command within the entire Army-Air Forces. A "Crew Chief" was the Lead mechanic on the crews that serviced the planes and weaponry of the AAF in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO) and Pacific Theatre of Operations (PTO).

In Summary, the singing Crew Chiefs were a performing element of Glenn Miller's wartime Orchestra from 1943 through his death in 1944 and through the end of the Orchestra's "life" in NOV45. In JAN46 there was a reconstructed Glenn Miller Civilian Orchestra conducted by Tex Beneke with a vocal group also called The Crew Chiefs.

- Courtesy of wrfreytag :)

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[wrfreytag]

Also, in the interest of accuracy, this is performed by The Army-Air Forces Training Command Orchestra under the Direction of Captain Glenn Miller...

[SamTheToyRobot]

@wrfreytag Are you positive, because if so, I'd be more than happy to correct my video. :)

[SamTheToyRobot]

I finally found time to upload this. :)

[wrfreytag]

Artie Malvin's, (lead) voice with The Crew Chiefs had a distinct purity and exceptional taste

[pelle571]

folks! This B17 was rebuilt by SAAB in sweden as a skyliner for the swedish airlinecompany ABA.....was one of the first to fly the route to New York from Stockholm 1945 She got the reg : SE-BAP and were sold to danish airlines 1945

[LaserBeam002]

Never heard this one. Thank you for posting. Love it.

[budgienation]

@474TFW Kilroy is here, there and EVERYWHERE! V for victory! By by and Buy BONDS! 

[budgienation]

Let's hear it for the 56th Fighter Squadron! Led by such luminaries as Col. Gabresky and Zemke (both free Poles flying for freedom) they had the best kill ration in the entire ETO. And they did it all flying P-47's EXCLUSIVELY. CAVE TINTILARUM "Beware the Thunderbolt".

[budgienation]

Benny Goodman had some nice vocalists but you gotta admit, Glen Miller's vocals were 'cavu' *

* ceiling and visabilyt unlimmited

[474TFW]

Long live the 474Th TFW....Kilroy was here....We were there.