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Bill Millin, best remembered for playing the pipes while under fire during the D-Day landing,...

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Bill Millin, best remembered for playing the pipes while under fire during the D-Day landing, Sword Beach, Normandy, France, June, 1944 (b/w photo)
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American Photographer, (20th century) / American
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photograph
Date
1944 AD (C20th AD)
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Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers. However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. He played "Hielan' Laddie" and "The Road to the Isles" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he was crazy. Millin's action on D-Day was portrayed in the 1962 film The Longest Day.

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© Galerie Bilderwelt / Bridgeman Images
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