Bill Millin: The "Mad Piper" of D-Day Invasion
Bill Millin was wading towards the shore alongside his fellow soldiers, but instead of a gun, he was holding his bagpipe as he began his most dangerous performance with Hielan' Laddie.
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Bill Millin was wading towards the shore alongside his fellow soldiers, but instead of a gun, he was holding his bagpipe as he began his most dangerous performance with Hielan' Laddie.
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) - When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on D-Day, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.
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