Legend Troop Plays The Bagpipes Right In The Enemy's Face
Bold American Pod
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Bill Millin was the "Mad Piper" who played allied commandos ashore under heavy German fire at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, on the extreme eastern flank of Operation Overlord. He was the only piper to lead allied troops into battle that day following a War Office ban which said pipers would attract sniper fire. But his commander, Brigadier Lord Lovat – Simon Fraser, hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser – was a law unto himself. "Ah, but that's the English War Office, Millin," Lovat told him. "You and I are both Scottish so that doesn't apply."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Zero Block30 listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Friday on Apple Podcast, Spotify and YouTube. |
| 0:06.2 | Pride members can also listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome back to another edition of Zero Blog 30. |
| 0:13.5 | Today we're going to be talking about a fellow that plays bagpipes |
| 0:16.2 | and he did it in Normandy. |
| 0:17.8 | I read this story earlier last week, and I was blown away. |
| 0:21.8 | And we talked a little bit about stories we didn't know last week like the gentleman who was in 20 he was in the jungle for 29 years |
| 0:28.1 | We talked about some things that happened in Desert Storm now we're gonna talk about another story that I haven't heard of because I'm tired talking about military news because it's depressing. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay. It's just depressing so I need a couple weeks break. |
| 0:42.0 | A little sore bay. Yeah. A little sore bay yeah but I would also like to add Katie |
| 0:45.8 | context here there's lots of wonderful things happening in the military with wonderful |
| 0:49.0 | people doing great jobs and we love all it's all bad I mean I'm just getting it's not all bad but we've been doing this for eight years and I think that I just need a little bit of a break from the minutia so we're going to keep it interesting and I thought last week was great. So we're going to keep going with that. |
| 1:05.0 | And today's show is going to be presented by our friends at VFW. |
| 1:08.0 | We've told you a lot about the things that the VFW are doing. |
| 1:12.0 | One of those things came up this week. |
| 1:14.1 | There was some educational benefits |
| 1:15.8 | that my daughter applies for that she gets every year |
| 1:19.0 | when she goes to school. |
| 1:20.6 | She had some issues getting it going again after a new semester just started because they do try semesters I guess |
| 1:27.2 | Triesters not try semesters, but trimesters so they do that she had some issues she called up the VFW they helped her out they showed her the form that she needed I probably could have helped her out but I didn't answer my phone so she went to the VFW and figured it out herself good for her they help help in so many different ways, not just what the |
| 1:44.1 | lone sharks, what they're obviously doing and you can check out it. |
| 1:46.8 | They're up to no good. Yeah, claim sharks, not lone sharks. They use it as a lone shark. |
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