DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The City of New Orleans made a massive and unique contribution to America’s World War II effort. New Orleans was home to Higgins Industries. With humble beginnings, Higgins ...

NEW ORLEANS – Andrew Higgins just wouldn’t take no for an answer. Stuck in a bind in May 1941, the Nebraskan behind Higgins Industries – makers of some of the most iconic American ships used during ...

An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) — also known as a Higgins boat — from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops from Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward receiving one of the few remaining Higgins Boats from World War II will be told by Nebraska National Guard historian and retired Col. Gerald ...