Business Insider

One of first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who said he only survived because German snipers thought he was too crazy to shoot

On June 6, 1944, a Canadian soldier named Bill Millin became known as the "Mad Piper" when he serenaded the Allies' D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France with his bagpipes. England's War Office had ...
UPI

Bill Millin, D-Day piper, dies at 88

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 ...
patheos

Pay the Piper: Bagpipes Played on D-Day – UPDATED

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, ...
Yahoo

Son of D-Day’s ‘mad piper’ honours his memory with 10-day salute

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 ...
Newsday

B. Millin, who played bagpipes at Normandy, dies at 88

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 ...
Liverpool Echo

Speke piper to lead troops on Normandy beach in D-Day 80 ceremony

Eighty years ago, a lone bagpipe player led his battalion over sands at Normandy as Britain embarked on the biggest, most ambitious seaborne invasion in military history. Legendary piper Bill Millin ...
Wall Street Journal

D-Day Piper Millin Dies at 87

As piper to a British army unit, Bill Millin was ordered to play "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" on his bagpipes as his brigade waded ashore on Sword Beach immediately behind the 3rd Division on the ...