Leon Gautier, last member of French D-Day military commando unit, dies at 100

French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer unit, Leon Gautier attends a ceremony in tribute to the 177 French members of the “Commando Kieffer” Fusiliers Marins commando unit who took part in the Normandy landings, as part of the 79th anniversary of D-Day, in Colleville-Montgomery, Normandy, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

PARIS — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100.

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