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 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, ...

Donald Trump joined Queen Elizabeth II and 15 other heads of state in the British city of Portsmouth Wednesday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day; the largest joint military operation ...

Frank Gibbins cleared the beaches of bodies after the Normandy landings when he arrived in France on June 6, 1944, as a 20-year-old Royal Marine.

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 ...

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.