Step into the boots of a World War II soldier as we relive America’s largest D-Day re-enactment—captured entirely from a first-person perspective. From the roar of landing craft engines to the chaos ...

June 6, 1944, marked the largest seaborne invasion in history. Seven veterans still living in Erie in 2015 remember hitting ...

June 6, 1944—over 150,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy. This is the full story of the invasion that turned the tide of WWII.

Larson was among the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who stormed the Normandy shore on June 6, 1944, surviving machine-gun fire when he landed on Omaha Beach.

D-Day veteran and social media star "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944, has died at 102. Known for sharing World War II stories on TikTok, ...

FILE - US veteran Jake Larson, also known as "Papa Jake", looks on during an International Commemorative Ceremony of the 81st Anniversary of the Landing of June 6, 1944, in Colleville-sur-Mer ...

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