Bill Millin, piper serving with the 1st Special Service Brigade on Sword Beach, whose piping inspired the troops on that eventful day, has passed at age 88. Wading ashore in waist-high water, he reported that it "caused his kilt to float." (I always heard that kilts were not worn in combat by that date. I wonder if pipers were an exception to that rule, and if there are any others.) The episode was depicted in the film "The Longest Day."



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