Honoring D-Day: Survivors and Families Remember 79th Anniversary

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Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commandos who stormed the Normandy beaches in 1944, joined President Emmanuel Macron at a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Gautier, 100, presented a student marine commando with his green beret at a passing out parade at Colleville-Montgomery, near where he had landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire. Gautier was one of 177 French green berets under the command of Captain Philippe Kieffer who took part in the Normandy landings.
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