Second World War veteran Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined US and other Allied forces in the 1944 D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died at the age of 100. His death was announced by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham, an English Channel coastal community where the Allies landed on June 6th, 1944, and where Mr Gautier lived out his last years. Advertisement No further details were released. French Second World War veteran Leon Gautier pictured at his home in Ouistreaham, Normandy, in May 2019 (Thibault Camus/AP) A special...