Robert F. Sargent

Robert F. Sargent (1923–2012)[1] was a United States Coast Guard chief petty officer.

[2] He was from Summit, New Jersey.

[3] A photographers mate, he is best known for a photograph he took of troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach from a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft (from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase) on D-Day.

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Taxis to Hell – and back – Into the Jaws of Death , photographed by Sargent at Omaha Beach during D-Day , June 6, 1944