The D Day Piper

as part of the D Day celebration, a lone piper played in honor of the British of D Day:


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one famous legend of the British landings was the lone piper who played in the midst of battle: Bill Millin:

Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy.[4] Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers.[5] However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: "Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.

and here is the fictionalized version from the film The Longest Day: