D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 after which garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing tales to commemorate World Conflict II and his fallen comrades, has died at 102. An animated speaker who charmed strangers younger and outdated together with his fast smile and beneficiant hugs, the self-described nation boy from Minnesota was ‘’cracking jokes til the top,” his granddaughter wrote in saying his dying.
