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Dec 22, 2018 · This incredible story of loyalty and bravery led to the immortalization of Bill Millin with a bronze statue at Sword Beach. Millin died of a stroke in 2010. He lived for 88 years, but his story will certainly live much longer.
Aug 20, 2010 · Aug. 19, 2010. LONDON Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who played highland tunes as his fellow commandos landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day and lived to see his bravado immortalized in the...
Jun 6, 2019 · On June 6, 1944, a soldier named Bill Millin played the bagpipes to boost morale as Allied troops stormed beaches in Normandy, France, on D-Day to liberate Nazi-occupied France. His commander...
Bill Millin was the "Mad Piper" who played allied commandos ashore under heavy German fire at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, on the extreme eastern flank of Operation Overlord. He was the...
England, Leslie Pipe Major of Laspee. Until his death, he went almost every year to Normandy to attend and participate in the commemorations of the landing, with his bagpipes and framed by many pipers. Before D-Day, Bill Millin plays the bagpipe for these comrades in England. Photo: IWM.
Aug 19, 2010 · A hero bagpiper who played soldiers into battle during World War II has died. Bill Millin, 88, died after a short illness in a nursing home in Devon where he lived after suffering a stroke several years ago, his family said. Mr Millin was immortalised in the film The Longest Day.
Jun 5, 2019 · Piper Bill Millin, who died in 2010 aged 88, was personal piper to Lord Lovat on D-Day and piped the invasion forces on to the shores of France; unarmed apart from the ceremonial dagger in his...
