Jake Larson returned to Normandy, France, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion — in which he had participated — and he told Christiane Amanpour that he knew exactly what he and his fellow soldiers had been fighting for.
“Every one of us was prepared to give our life to kick Hitler’s ass out of Europe!” 101-year-old D-Day veteran Jake Larson tells me that he knew exactly what they were fighting for 80 years ago today. “I lost friends, everybody lost friends. But we were soldiers. We were prepared… pic.twitter.com/gDa63cp9KG
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) June 6, 2024
Amanpour began by asking Larson whether he remembered what it was like to step out of the landing craft into the water, and he was adamant: “Like it was yesterday.”
He went on to say that the “17-year-old pilot” had dropped them off a bit short of the mark he was supposed to…
