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.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded ashore on D-Day, has died. He celebrated his ...

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 ...

PARISPARIS — 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.