Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of France's Kieffer Commando — one of the first to come ashore at Normandy on D-Day — has died after being treated for lung issues. He was 100.

Rooney reflects on D-Day 03:22. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He and his comrades in the Kieffer Commando unit were among the first waves of Allied troops to storm Normandy, beginning the liberation of western Europe. Skip to content. All Sections.

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 ...

Leon Gautier, the last surviving 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, has died. He was 100.

He and his comrades in the Kieffer Commando unit were among the first waves of Allied troops to storm Normandy, beginning the liberation of western Europe. Skip to content. All Sections.

He and his comrades in the Kieffer Commando unit were among the first waves of Allied troops to storm Normandy, beginning the liberation of western Europe. Skip to content. All Sections.

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 ...

French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer unit, Leon Gautier attends a ceremony in tribute to the 177 French members of the “Commando Kieffer” Fusiliers Marins commando unit who took part in ...