"Our beloved Papa Jake has passed away on July 17th at 102 years young," McKaela Larson, Papa Jake's granddaughter, wrote in a post on his TikTok.

‘The luckiest man in the world.’ WWII veteran ‘Papa Jake’ dies at 102 Jake Larson is surrounded by his family at the home of his grandson Mike Larson on Christmas Eve in 2024.

PARIS (AP) — D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate ...