Monday, June 3, 2019

As D-Day landings fade from memory, a veteran grapples with violence of war

Reuters – Seventy-five years on, Leon Gautier still grapples with the memories of the brutality of war. He landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, one of the first wave of French commandos to storm the Normandy beachfront defended by Hitler’s troops. Today, 96-year-old Gautier, his wit quick and […]

As D-Day landings fade from memory, a veteran grapples with violence of war

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