The Normandy
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The Normandy, at 140 Riverside Drive and West 86th Street, is a luxury residential cooperative apartment building in Manhattan, New York City.
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WW2 veterans sign history buff's rifle as he collects stories
... After The Normandy landings, he built temporary airfields and cleared the area of snipers...
Evidence found of German mass execution by French Resistance after D-Day
... " As an 18-year-old member of the Francs Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) Resistance group, Réveil had taken part in an anti-German uprising in the Corrèze capital of Tulle just after The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944...
Léon Gautier: Last French D-Day fighter dies aged 100
... Later in life, Gautier settled in The Normandy port town of Ouistreham, and became a campaigner for peace...
D-Day veteran Les Budding, 97, tells of first-wave role
... Following intense training in Scotland, he found himself with 85 others boarding a 186ft landing craft in Portsmouth headed for The Normandy coast, 79 years ago...
Suffolk funeral for one of last D-Day veterans, aged 100
... Joe Cattini was just 21 when he drove a truck loaded with petrol and ammunition off a ship in one of the first waves of The Normandy landings on 6 June 1944...
D-Day veteran Edward Gaines from Poole dies aged 98
... Mr Gaines, who had four children and 16 grandchildren, had previously of preparing for The Normandy landings in June 1944...
Remembrance Sunday: UK to fall silent to commemorate war dead
... Working with a number of partners, including The Normandy Memorial Trust and the Royal British Legion, the BBC has already spoken to many men and women who served during the War - you can...
World War Two: Soldier reunited with girl he met in France
... A chance encounter amid the horrors of war near The Normandy beaches and just weeks after may have been brief, but the memory has lasted a lifetime...
Léon Gautier: Last French D-Day fighter dies aged 100
By Kathryn ArmstrongBBC News
The last surviving member of a French commando unit that helped to repel Nazi Germany 's invasion of Western Europe has died aged 100.
Léon Gautier was part of the D-Day landings in 1944 - When Allied forces invaded Normandy in France during the biggest sea invasion in history.
He was among only a small number of French nationals to take part in the deadly eight-day battle.
Gautier later called war a " misery" that " ends with widows and orphans".
Regional Mayor Romain Bail described Gautier as " a Local Hero whom everybody knew" and who was " an ardent defender of freedom".
Gautier was born in Rennes, in France's north-western Brittany region, and enlisted in the French Navy as a teenager soon after World War Two began, as he was too young to enter the army.
He escaped to Britain in 1940 before Adolf Hitler 's forces swept through much of Western Europe , including France.
In London, Gautier joined the Free France movement, which maintained a government-in-exile and military that coordinated with the Allies against Nazi Germany .
He fought in Congo, Syria and Lebanon, before joining a unit of marine riflemen known as the Kieffer commandos, which trained in the Scottish Highlands .
They were the only French fighters to participate in D-Day.
During The Battle for Normandy, More Than half of Gautier's unit of 177 Frenchmen were killed.
The D-Day landings, which involved soldiers from many other Allied countries, began an attack that lasted for 11 months. It eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of occupied Europe.
Later in life, Gautier settled in The Normandy port town of Ouistreham, and became a campaigner for peace.
" Not All That long Ago . . I would think perhaps I killed a young lad, " He Said in an interview with Reuters news agency in 2019, When he was 96 years old.
" Perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed A Woman or made A Mother Cry . . I didn't want to do that. I'm not a bad man. "
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com