Robert F. Sargent

Neptune was the largest combat operation ever performed by the United States Coast Guard. The Higgins boat depicted in the photograph had departed from the attack transport Samuel Chase about 10 mi from the coast of Normandy at around 5:30 am. Waves continuously broke over the boat's square bow, and the soldiers inside were drenched in cold ocean water. In all, Samuel Chase 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.

The phrase "into the jaws of Death" in the photograph's caption comes from a refrain in "The Charge of the Light Brigade", an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

The photograph is shown in the closing moments of the 2025 television documentary miniseries The American Revolution, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. The image was evoked in the 1998 Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan, and appears on the cover of Stanley Lombardo's 1997 English translation of the Iliad as a symbol of the universality of war.

• Illustration — Sargent (left) shows fellow Coast Guardsman Clyde Wilson a photograph of the sinking landing craft that Wilson evacuated on D-Day. Robert Fred Sargent (July 19, 1918 – March 27, 1969) was a United States Coast Guard chief petty officer, a photographers mate best known for capturing the image Into the Jaws of Death. He was from Summit, New Jersey, and a veteran of the invasions of Sicily, Italy, and Normandy.

These are among the other World War II photographs by Sargent: • Illustration — Hugging the Beach at Salerno (September 1943), Sargent's photograph of Coast Guardsmen flat on the sand under German bombardment during Operation Avalanche • Illustration — French Coast Dead Ahead, Sargent's photograph of U.S. Army troops crouching behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach on D-Day • Illustration — Approaching Omaha Beach, a landing craft from the Chase is drenched in smoke resulting from a German bullet hitting a smoke grenade carried by an American soldier

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