This is a reprise of a diary I wrote last August upon hearing of the passing of Bill Millin, the hero piper of D-Day. Bill Millin died at the age of 88 in Devon, England. It seems appropriate to ...

LONDON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Bill Millin, who walked Sword Beach braving gunfire and playing the bagpipes for British troops on D-Day, has died. He was 88. Millin died Tuesday, The Daily Telegraph ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father and son pipers John and Jacob Millin honour their D-Day hero father and grandfather Bill Millin - ASADOUR GUZELIAN The son ...

Bill Millin, 88, a Scottish bagpiper who braved mortar shells, raking machine guns and sniper fire to play morale-pumping tunes for his fellow commandos from the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, died Aug ...

A mad, splendid story, from a time when a little madness was a magnificent thing: ANY reasonable observer might have thought Bill Millin was unarmed as he jumped off the landing ramp at Sword Beach, ...

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ANY reasonable observer might have thought Bill Millin was unarmed as he jumped off the landing ramp at Sword Beach, in Normandy, on June 6th 1944. Unlike his colleagues, the pale 21-year-old held no ...

Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who braved mortar shells, raking machine guns and sniper fire to play morale-pumping tunes for his fellow commandos from the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, died Tuesday ...

LONDON — Bill Millin, 86, the Scottish bagpiper who defied enemy fire as he led comrades into battle at the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, northern France, has died, his family said today. Piper ...

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 1962 film “The Longest ...

LONDON - Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who played highland tunes as his fellow commandos landed on D-Day and lived to see his bravado immortalized in the 1962 film The Longest Day, died Wednesday ...