Robert F. Sargent

{{Short description|U.S. Coast Guardsman and photographer (1923–2012)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox military person

| name = Robert F. Sargent

| image = Robert F. Sargent and Clyde Wilson.pdf

| caption = Sargent (left) presenting a photo to fellow Coast Guardsman Clyde Wilson.

| birth_date = 1923

| death_date = 2012

| allegiance = United States

| branch = United States Coast Guard

| rank = Chief Photographers Mate

| known_for = Photographing Taxis to Hell – and back – Into the Jaws of Death

}}

File:Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit.jpg, photographed by Sargent at Omaha Beach during D-Day, June 6, 1944]]

Robert F. Sargent (1923–2012){{cite web |title=Taxis to hell - and back |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/96514770/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |access-date=11 November 2024}} was a United States Coast Guard chief petty officer. He was from Summit, New Jersey.{{cite web |last1=Winship |first1=Thomas |title=ABOARD THE COAST GUARD-ASSAULT TRANSPORT U.S.S. SAMUEL CHASE, OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE |url=https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/16/2002940268/-1/-1/0/1944_JAWSOFDEATH_CAPTION_INFO.PDF |website=U.S. Department of Defense |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=12 November 2024}}

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|APA-26|6}}) on D-Day.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.uscg.mil/Our-Collections/Photos/igphoto/2002116659/|title=U.S. Coast Guard at Normandy|publisher=U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office|access-date=May 31, 2019}}{{cite web |date= August 27, 1999|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/27/arts/photography-review-an-american-century-through-the-government-s-lens.html|title = Photography Review; An American Century, Through the Government's Lens|work=The New York Times| access-date = June 25, 2011 | last=Goldberg| first= Vicki|quote=}}{{cite web |date= 12 September 2010 |url = http://www.famouspictures.org/greatest-generation-d-day-landing/|title = Greatest Generation D-day landing|publisher = Famous Pictures| access-date = May 25, 2013 | last=Lucas| first= Dean|quote=}}