Pipes and choir play Amazing Grace in Bayeux Cathedral on 70th Anniversary of liberation from d day 70th anniversary normandy Watch Video
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Description: A lone piper joins the choir of Bayeux Cathedral to perform at a special service of remembrance and dedication of a new memorial bell on 8th June 2014. This was part of a week I spent in Normandy commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Allied invasion. Bayeux was liberated on 8th June 1944 as part of the Operation Overlord campaign after British, Canadian and American troops landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. The playing of bagpipes has become synonymous with the landings, the most famou