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Last remaining French D-day veteran Léon Gautier dies at 100

Léon Gautier pictured on 15 April, 2014, on the Sword beach, Colleville-Montgomery, where he landed on June 6, 1944, with 177 other men of the Kieffer commando, during Operation Overlord. AFP - JOEL SAGET

Leon Gautier, the last surviving Frenchman to participate in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, died Monday aged 100, local authorities said.

Gautier was among 177 Frenchmen who took part in the landings on 6 June, 1944, which marked the start of a rollback of Nazi Germany's domination of western Europe.

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