Into the jaws of death
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
- ^ Scott T. Price: US Coast Guard at Normandy . US Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ Charge of the Light Brigade ( Memento of May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Taxis to hell - and back , description in the Library of Congress