The American veteran of the Normandy landings known to his thousands of TikTok followers as 'Papa Jake' has died at the age ...

D-Day veteran Jake Larson, affectionately known as \"Papa Jake,\" has passed away at 102. A survivor of the Normandy landings ...

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Allied Forces stromed the beaches of Normandy, france on June 6, 1944. Here American troops hit the water from one of the landing craft. Soldiers on shore are lying flat under German machine ...

Mr Larson combined humorous anecdotes with sombre reminders about the horrors of war in his social media posts and interviews ...

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II ...

June 6, 2025 marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Getty Images via CNN Newsource.

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II ...