Tributes to him quickly filled his “Story Time with Papa Jake" TikTok account from across the United States, where he had been living in Lafayette, California.

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.

Many towns around Normandy, which continue to be grateful for the sacrifice of Allied forces to defeat the Nazis in occupied France during World War II, also mourned the loss of the D-Day veteran onl...