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'Into the Jaws of Death', depicting men of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) disembarking from a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft at Omaha Beach in the early hours of 6 June 1944. Taken by Robert F. Sargent, it is one of the most famous photographs from D-Day and World War II. ⠀ Sergeant Ray Lambert, a medic with the 1st Infantry Division, was in the first wave that assaulted Omaha beach on D-Day. He recalled: "When we got within a thousand yards of the beach, you could hear the machine-gun bullets hitting off the front ramp of the boat. ⠀ The ramp went down, and we were in water over our heads. Some of the men drowned. Some got hit by the bullets. The boat next to ours blew up. Some of those men caught fire. We never saw them again. ⠀ When we got to the beach, I said to one of my men, Cpl. Meyers, "If there's a hell, this has got to be it." And it was about a minute later that he got a bullet in his head. To make a long story short, only seven of the 31 men on my b...

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