Tributes have poured in from across the United States and Normandy, where he was celebrated for his role in defeating Nazi forces

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his social media accounts Saturday. He was 102.

Tributes are being paid to American World War Two veteran and social media star Jake Larson, known online as 'Papa Jake', who has died at the age of 102. Larson was among the Allied troops in D-Day who attacked Nazi Germany's forces on the beaches of northern France in 1944,