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The son of Bill Millin, the “mad piper” who played to Allied troops as they stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, has commemorated his father’s heroism with a 10-day bagpipe salute in his memory.
The wind had reached gale-force as the five elderly Bristol Bombay transport aircraft neared their target, bucking in the storm and threatening to flip over.