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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Léon Gautier was famous in France as the last representative of the "Kieffer Commando", the only French unit to take part in the Allied D-Day landings on Normandy beaches in June 1944. As the 80th ...

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 ...

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 ...