Into the Jaws of Death

It depicts soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division disembarking from an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle, personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-crewed USS Samuel Chase at Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings in World War II.

It depicts the soldiers departing the Higgins boat and wading through waist-deep water towards the "Easy Red" sector of Omaha Beach.

[4] The Higgins boat depicted in the photograph had departed from the attack transport USS Samuel Chase about 10 miles (8.7 nmi; 16 km) 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.

[5] The image was evoked in the 1998 Hollywood film Saving Private Ryan,[6][7] and appears on the cover of Stanley Lombardo's 1997 English translation of the Iliad as a symbol of the universality of war.

Taxis to Hell – and back , by Robert F. Sargent , CPhoM, USCG.
Original caption: "Into the Jaws of Death
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 passengers." [ 1 ] [ 2 ]