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D-Day piper to be honoured by the French

Bill Millin, now 86, tried to raise the morale of incoming troops with his tunes, as shells exploded overhead and machinegun fire raked Sword Beach.

The picture of the 21-year-old commando became one of the enduring images of the landings which paved the way to Hitler's defeat in the Second World War.

Now he is to be immortalised in a life-sized statue by the people of Colleville Montgomery, which he helped to liberate in 1944.

On Thursday a group of French officials are due to visit him near his home in Dawlish, Devon, to show him a model of the statue.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)