Glenn Miller Omaha on October 8, 1942, to the Seventh Service Command as a captain in the Army Specialist Corps. Miller was soon transferred to the Army Air Forces. Captain Glenn Miller served initially as assistant special services officer for the Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1942. He played trombone with the Rhythmaires, a 15-piece dance band, in both Montgomery and in service clubs and recreation halls on Maxwell. Miller also appeared on both WAPI (Birmingham, Alabama) and WSFA radio (Montgomery), promoting the activities of civil service women aircraft mechanics employed at Maxwell. Miller
Glenn Miller discography performed, recorded, and broadcast on the "I Sustain the Wings" radio program, Program No.15, on May 5, 1944 and on November 10, 1945. Larry O'Brien and the Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded the song on the 2006 album "Steppin' Out". "I Sustain the Wings" was composed by Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, Norman Leyden and Bill Meyers. This was the theme music for the radio program that was broadcast weekly on Saturday on NBC from June 1943 to June 10, 1944 by the Army Air Force Band under the direction of Captain Glenn Miller. The radio show was on CBS. Miller was