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Roy Maxwell talked little about his experience on D-Day with No 4 Commando, apart from to admit that when they landed at 0800 on Sword Beach after a “horrendous
Léon Gautier obituary: French commando who served with the elite Kieffer unit that joined Allied forces to storm the Normandy beaches on D-Day
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Gautier was one of 177 French green berets who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler's forces in 1944.
“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.”