In 1942, Glenn Miller joined the United States Army Air Forces ["Stars Wore Stripes"] and was commissioned as a captain as well as being appointed as the branch's band director. Miller jettisoned most of his civilian band's musical library. "ven the famous Miller sound exemplified in 'Moonlight Serenade' was only heard occasionally from the AEF Band." He initially formed a large marching band that was to be the core of a network of service orchestras, but his attempts at modernizing military music were met with some resistance from tradition-minded career officers.

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