Amid the roar of gunfire and the shouts and screams of soldiers as they ran up the beaches of Normandy, there was another sound: the keening cry of bagpipes. The noise of war was everywhere.

Of the 156,000 Allied troops that landed on D-Day, 83,000 of them were British or Canadian and, of those, only one was playing bagpipes. As his colleagues fell around him, one man survived the day ...

Bagpipes that stirred Allied troops on D-Day landed Tuesday in the National War Museum of Scotland, a donation from the man who played them under intense enemy fire. Pvt. Bill Millin, the only man in ...

Bill Millin stepped off his landing craft on that fateful day wearing his dad's First World War kilt and bravely roused his comrades with traditional music as gunfire and explosions rang all around ...

Image caption, The pipes are on a journey from Scotland to Normandy taking in many of the ports associated with D-Day D-Day veterans have gathered in Liverpool to meet a set of bagpipes that are on ...

Image: Bill Millin marched up and down the bullet-torn beach playing the Scottish marching tune Highland Laddie. Pic:PA Amid the roar of gunfire and the shouts and screams of soldiers as they ran up ...