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Leon Gautier, last surviving French commando who took part in WWII D-Day landings in Normandy, dies at 100

Por: CBS News World July 03, 2023

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Paris — The last of the 177 elite French troops who joined the Allies' harrowing beach landings in Normandy in 1944 has died. Leon Gautier was 100, and he died less than a month after he returned to the now-quiet beaches for a commemoration ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron.Gautier's death was announced by the mayor of Ouistreham, a French community on the English Channel coast where Allies landed on , and where... + full article



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