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D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday to the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

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Arlester Brown, a 101-year-old veteran of World War II who served in a laundry unit that accompanied the Allied advances through France and the Low Countries and into Nazi Germany, regales French children with his stories during a visit on Monday in Colleville-sur-Mer, June 2, 2025, to the Normandy American Cemetery that is the final resting place for nearly 9,400 American war dead and which overlooks Omaha beach, one of the D-D-day invasion zones on June 6, 1944.

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This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regime

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