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

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 ...

D-Day veteran “Papa Jake” Larson, who survived German gunfire in the June 1944 Normandy landings and went on to garner 1.2 ...

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) — 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.

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 ...