The map of the operations
Landing on Sword Beach, 6 June 1944
Sword Beach today
=> Complete the crossword about the D-Day (leaflet)
2. What about "Sword Beach"?
Watch the video and answer the questions (tick the correct answers).
3. What about the French on June 6, 1944?
Objective: Be able to recap the role of the French troops on June 6, 1944.
4. Piper William "Bill" Millin Statue
William Millin (1922-2010), commonly known as Piper Bill, was personal piper to Lord Lovat, commander of 1 Special Service Brigade at D-Day.
Millin is best remembered for playing the pipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy.
He played "Highland Laddie", "The Road to the Isles" and "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword. Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thoughts he had gone mad.
Millin, whom Lovat had appointed his personal piper during commando training in Scotland, was the only man during the landing who wore a kilt and he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh or "black knife".
=> Why was this soldier special on June 6, 1944?
=> Watch this extract from "The Longest Day" (1962).
- What do you think about it?
- Is it believable?
- Do you know other war films? Which ones?
5. Remembering
=> Which symbol is chosen to honour the soldiers buried here?
=> How many soldiers are buried here?
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