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The farmhouse was a critical and strategic part of the Allied invasion and commandeered by Major John Howard after the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry captured Pegasus Bridge at 12.16am on June 6, 1944, in one of the first acts of D-Day.

The son of Bill Millin, the “mad piper” who played to Allied troops as they stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, has commemorated his father’s heroism with a 10-day bagpipe salute in his memory.

John Millin performs bagpipe tribute to his father as part of countdown to 80th anniversary of Normandy landings