Families in Normandy, France are getting ready to celebrate the life of "Papa Jake" Larson — A Minnesota native and war hero.

TikTok star "Papa Jake" Larson, who planned the Normandy invasion and survived D-Day, passed away at 102 after sharing his ...

Mr. Larson, the last survivor of a unit that stormed Omaha Beach in 1944, shared his memories on social media where he ...

But at one place, Omaha Beach, it was, in General [Omar] Bradley's words, 'a night-mare.' "Even now it brings pain to recall what happened there on June 6, 1944," Bradley wrote long after the war.

Jake Larson and his U.S. military unit stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944. He went viral on TikTok — where he was known as ...

D-Day veteran and social media star "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived Omaha Beach in 1944, has died at 102. "Our beloved Papa ...

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Seven decades after the "Boys of Omaha Beach" landed in Normandy, veterans and soldiers return seeking closure as they enter the final years of their lives.

Families in Normandy, France are getting ready to celebrate the life of Papa Jake Larson, a Minnesota native and war hero. He ...

The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...

While most storming Omaha Beach were in their 20s, one man stood out—not for youth, but for age and sheer courage. This is ...