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PARIS—Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined US and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The death was announced Monday by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham, an English Channel coastal community…
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,
The last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion has died. Leon Gautier was 100 years old. The death
Leon Gautier, a French icon who was the last surviving member of the nation's elite D-Day unit, died Monday. He was 100.Gautier's Kieffer Commando was among the first wave of Allied forces to storm the beaches at Normandy."We were being shot at, but we shot at them too," Gautier recalled of the watershed military operation.
“We were at the head of the landing,” he said. “The British let us go a few meters in front. For us it was the liberation of France, the return into the family.”