Timeline for Playing music during battle?
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | Stack Tracer | Deploying bagpipes in combat against the enemy? Sounds like a war crime to me... ;) | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 17:19 | vote | accept | RedBadgeOfCourage | ||
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 17:17 | vote | accept | RedBadgeOfCourage | ||
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 16:39 | comment | added | Dronz | Hurt my bagpiper, and I'm only going to be more inspired to take you out... ;-) | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | Tonny | I've heard that too (and can't recall from where) about regular army soldiers (Wehrmacht). The SS guys were a different matter. They really focused on taking out officers and other stand-out opponents. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 15:59 | comment | added | GeoffAtkins | I do recall a quote although I can't remember the source - that some German units deliberately didn't shoot at the pipers because they felt it was bad luck. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Tonny | According to my grandfather the piper played during combat, but he stayed just behind the people actually in combat. Still in firing range in most cases. Pipers got targeted expressly by the German troops. As you already mentioned mortality rate was high. Pipers would also assist medics/carry wounded. In most cases pipers didn't carry a riffle, only a side-arm, and wouldn't engage in actual combat unless cornered. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 15:29 | comment | added | GeoffAtkins | @Tonny - Yes, I watched The Longest Day this weekend just gone (with it being Remembrance Sunday). However, I had no immediate evidence of their piping during actual combat. | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | Tonny | Scottish regiments in WWII still had pipers too. Famous case is the Normandy landings on D-Day. Many people think that the Scottish piper as shown in The Longest Day movie was invented by the script-writers, but it really happened according to my grandfather who was actually there. | |
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| Nov 10, 2015 at 11:36 | history | answered | GeoffAtkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |