Behind the Photograph: Taxis to Hell and Back
World War Two
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5m 7s
At c.7.40am 6 June 1944 Robert F Sargent took one of the most famous photographs from D-Day - and the whole of the Second World War - on a landing craft at Omaha Beach. This is the story behind the photograph.
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