Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. free french commandos On June 6, 1944, 177 members of Commando Kieffer landed on the Normandy shore designated “Sword Beach.” ...
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. The ...
PARIS (AP) — 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.