# @richeisenshow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CPzAUR0Dxdg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9063478-richeisenshow-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-06-06T23:20:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) — https://gondola.cc/RichEisenShow

## Caption

'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.
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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.
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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.
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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 boat made it to the beach."
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Lambert, who also participated in the North African campaign and the invasion of Sicily with the Big Red One, is credited with saving the lives of at least 15 men on D-Day. He was severely wounded, but managed to survive. He passed away at the age of 100 on 9 April 2021. 

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June 6, 1944.
Thank You to those that sacrificed it all.
#DDay 🇺🇸

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