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 in the ...

Leon Gautier, a French icon who was the last surviving member of the nation's elite D-Day unit, died Monday. He was 100. Gautier's Kieffer Commando was among the first wave of Allied forces to storm ...

Leon Gautier, the last surviving Frenchman who fought the Nazis on D-Day, died Monday. He was 100. Gautier had been hospitalized with lung problems a few weeks ago, according to Romain Bail, mayor of ...

In this photo made May 9, 2019, French World War II veteran Leon Gautier, of the Kieffer commando, poses for a picture in his house, in Ouistreaham, Normandy. Gautier is a D-Day veteran who was part ...

PARIS — 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.