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Original caption: "American invaders spring from the ramp of a Coast Guard-manned landing barge to wade those last perilous yards to the beach of Normandy. Enemy fire will cut some of them down. Their 'taxi' will pull itself off the sands and dash back to a Coast Guard manned transport for more
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The image was one of the most widely reproduced photographs of the D-Day landings. The original photograph is stored by the United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
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lost six landing craft on D-Day; four foundered near the beach, one was "impaled" by a beach obstacle, and another was sunk by enemy gunfire.
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at around 5:30 am. Waves continuously broke over the boat's square bow, and the soldiers inside were drenched in cold ocean water.
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The photograph was taken by Chief Photographer's Mate Robert Sargent during the troop landing phase of
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The photograph was taken at 7:40 am local time. It depicts the soldiers departing the
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The phrase "into the jaws of Death" in the photograph's title comes from a refrain in "
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and wading through waist-deep water towards the "Easy Red" sector of
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The Higgins boat depicted in the photograph had departed from the
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Neptune was the largest combat operation ever performed by the
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about 10 miles (8.7 nmi; 16 km) from the coast of
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Robert F. Sargent
Robert F. Sargent
United States Coast Guard
U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division
LCVP
U.S. Coast Guard
USS Samuel Chase
Omaha Beach
Normandy landings
World War II
Operation Neptune
Operation Overlord
D-Day
Higgins boat
Omaha Beach
United States Coast Guard
attack transport
USS Samuel Chase
Normandy
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1854
narrative poem
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charge of the Light Brigade
Battle of Balaclava
Crimean War
Saving Private Ryan
Stanley Lombardo
Iliad

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