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Glenn Miller began and ended in Boston
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Dick Sinnot is a former Associated Press reporter and Channel 7
commentator. He was press secretary to former Mayor John Collins in
the 1960s.
His name was Freddie Guerra and he was a saxophone player from
Boston, a very fortunate saxophone player, for he had been selected
to play in Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band, by far the most
popular military musical aggregation of World War II.
Sgt. Guerra wasn't playing sax that day. Instead, he had driven
Major Miller and the band manager, Lt. Don Haynes, to an airfield
near Bedford, 50 miles from London. From there, Miller was to fly to
France ...
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