Capt. Miller—soon to be promoted to major—had made his point. Miller’s orchestra, along with several dozen other big bands, recorded extensively for the V-Disc program, operated by the Special Services division of the U.S. War Department. Starting in 1943, veteran producers such as Simon, Steve Sholes and Morty Palitz supervised dozens of sessions resulting in thousands of songs pressed on special singles for the exclusive enjoyment of servicemen. Now more than 200 of those tracks have been collected, restored and officially released in a new 10-CD boxed set from Mosaic, “Classic V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions.”