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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.
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 death was announced Monday by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham, an English Channel