The Higgins boat is one of the iconic vessels of World War II. The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. The man behind it, Andrew Higgins, ...

Higgins boat PA31-17, which saw action in seven World War II battles, arrived at the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward after it was discovered in half-submerged in drought-stricken Shasta Lake ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean — yet he forever changed war fought from the sea. He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing craft ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower once credited with winning World War II, was a wild and wily genius. At the New Orleans plant where his company built the boats that brought troops ...

Key Point: The modern version of these troop carriers may or may not be automated. From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great amphibious invasions of World War II were made possible by a humble plywood ...

SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - Efforts are underway to restore a Word War II landing craft, which was discovered last year at the bottom of California’s largest reservoir. According to officials at the ...

Most people know him as the man who designed and produced the famed Higgins Boats that helped turned the tide in World War II, but just like everyone else, he was more than his job. More than 60 ...

The Higgins Boats of World War II were operated by men, not robots. But automated or not, their twenty-first-century successors may prove just as useful. From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great ...

A World War II-era boat was discovered at drought-stricken Shasta Lake in California, the U.S. Forest Service announced. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest shared photos of the vessel it called the ...

This boat was deserted in the desert. A WWII boat that was intentionally sunk in the major reservoir of Lake Mead is emerging from the water as the reservoir continues to shrink. Water levels have ...

After reading a recent story about PT-305’s return to the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion at the National WWII Museum, Martin Audiffred submitted a Curious Louisiana query: “Where exactly was the ...