Sword Beach

 It was a wee bit windy at Sword Beach

 

    

Higgins Boat at Sword Beach

I had a gift for taking crooked pictures

Malcom and one of his famous diagrams

What to do with bunkers? A museum and a cafe

Monuments to Piper Bill Millin who famously piped his fellow soldiers into the fight at Sword Beach, in spite of regulations.  Their mission was to break through to the paratroopers at Pegasus Bridge.

The story goes something like this:

England's War Office had officially banned bagpipers from the war's front lines, saying they would attract enemy fire.

 "Ah, but that's the English War Office, Millin."You and I are both Scottish, so that doesn't apply," 

Lord Lovat said.

Monument at Sword Beach 

Monument at Pegasus Bridge Museum

The pipes he used on D-Day are now in the Pegasus Bridge Museum