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Spanish WWII liberator of Paris dies of coronavirus at 99

| April 2, 2020 4:03 AM

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Gomez Nieto, the last surviving member of a company of Spanish soldiers that fought with French forces in liberating Paris from Nazi occupation in 1944, has died of the new coronavirus, the French presidency said Thursday. He was 99.

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