Into the jaws of death

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Taxis to Hell - and Back - Into the Jaws of Death , by Robert F. Sargent, CPhoM, USCG . Original description: “American invaders jump off the ramp of a Coast Guard landing craft to wade the last dangerous meters to the beach in Normandy. Enemy fire will take down some of them. Your "taxi" will withdraw from the beach and rush back to the coast guard troop transports to pick up more passengers. "

Taxis to Hell - and back - into the jaws of death ( Engl. "Taxis to hell - and back - in the jaws of death") is a historical photo that the US Army -photographer Robert F. Sargent at D- Day , June 6, 1944. It was shot on the US landing section of Omaha Beach in Normandy and shows soldiers of the 1st US Infantry Division leaving a Coast Guard landing craft ( LCVP ) to storm the beach.

The title into the jaws of death is a quote from the Chorus in Alfred Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade ( the attack of the Light Brigade ), which to an event during the Battle of Balaklava relates. The scene was cinematically quoted in the 1998 Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scott T. Price: US Coast Guard at Normandy . US Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  2. ^ Charge of the Light Brigade ( Memento of May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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