Topic - Leon Gautier

Related Stories

FILE - French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer 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. Leon Gautier, the last member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the 1944 D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, died Monday July 3, 2023 at 100 years old. ( Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP, File)

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

Associated Press

In this photo made May 9, 2019, French World War II veteran Leon Gautier, of the Kieffer commando, poses for a picture in his house, in Ouistreaham, Normandy. Gautier is a D-Day veteran who was part of a 177-man French force that landed on D-Day. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

‘War is ugly’: For French vet, D-Day’s lessons are timeless

Associated Press