Bill Millin is the kind of guy who would have busked the streets of Glasgow.
Bill, who worked as a piper with a travelling theatre before becoming a psychiatric nurse in later life, is better known as the man who played the pipes during the Normandy beach landings on June 6, 1944.
The then 21-year-old was part of the First Special Service Brigade that landed on Sword beach under enemy fire. "I didn't notice I was being shot at. When you're young you do things you wouldn't dream of doing when you're older," he's reported to have said later.
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