Leon Gautier, the last surviving French D-day commando, died last Monday. He was 100 years old.
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Gautier was one of 177 green berets in the Kieffer unit which stormed the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944.
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Leon Gautier, 1942 |
Gautier was one of 177 French green berets who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler’s forces in 1944.
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Last month, Gautier presented a student marine commando with his green beret at a passing-out parade at Colleville-Montgomery, near the spot where he had landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire at the age of 21.
In
a poignant moment during that ceremony, the young marine knelt on one knee to
allow Gautier to straighten his beret.
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