French WWII Normandy landings hero dies aged 106 AFP 2 hrs ago AFP © - D-Day veteran Hubert Faure, who has died aged 106, standing in a street named after him in Dordogne, southwest France, in 2008
Hubert Faure, one of the last surviving members of a French commando team which took part in the 1944 Normandy landings, has died aged 106, with President Emmanuel Macron leading the tributes on Saturday.
Macron expressed the gratitude of the nation and sent his condolences to Faure s family in a statement, saying the former navy commando provided a wonderful lesson in commitment and heroism .
Faure was one of 177 French-led commandos who landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day on June 5, 1944 in the first wave of Allied landings in Nazi-occupied France, the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Dordogne : le résistant Hubert Faure, du commando Kieffer, est décédé à 106 ans
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