The last surviving French D-Day fighter, Leon Gautier, has died aged 100. Mr Gautier was part of a French commando unit alongside other Allied forces in the D-Day landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the largest sea invasion in history that ultimately liberated Western Europe from Nazi control. Only several men from the 177-strong French battalion escaped death or injury that day - one of them being Mr Gautier. In his later years, he would decry war as "ugly" and rife with "misery". The veteran's death was announced by mayor Roman Bail of Ouistreham, a commune in Normandy...
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