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Bill Millin, 88; Piper Played on D-Day - The New York Times
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Aug 19, 2010 - Bill Millin playing the bagpipes in an photograph from World War II taken shortly after D-Day. ... as his fellow commandos landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day and ... “The Longest Day,” died on Wednesday in a hospital in the western ... German fire, Lord Lovat again asked Private Millin to play his pipes.Bill Millin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Landing on Sword Beach; Millin is in the foreground at the right; Lovat is wading through ... for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. ... However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the ... Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed ...
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