During the 1930s, Higgins Industries perfected a work boat, dubbed the “Eureka’’ model, designed for the swamps and marshes of the Gulf Coast. The shallow-draft boat could operate in just 18 inches of ...

Coast Guard Gunner's Mate Frank DeVita crawled over the bodies of the dead who lay in the blood and puke covering the deck of the Higgins boat on Omaha Beach to save the landing craft during the first ...

Adolf Hitler called him the "new Noah." Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said he was "the man who won the war for us." Everyone else called him “Mr. Higgins.’’ Andrew Jackson Higgins was the native Nebraskan ...

A PBS documentary this week marks the upcoming 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing in France and examines, among other things, Higgins boats, the chief American landing craft at Normandy. I first ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The boat’s usefulness could not be overstated. It just might be the most recognized boat of the Second World War. The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel,... Here’s What ...

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 ...

BOAT THAT SANK HITLER: Museum also honors the man who designed the ramp-fronted landing craft. A former brewery just blocks from Harrah's Casino in the Big Easy might not seem the obvious location for ...

A PBS documentary this week marks the upcoming 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing in France and examines, among other things, Higgins boats, the chief American landing craft at Normandy. I first ...

American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower credited the Higgins — a landing craft that carried troops, tanks and trucks — with helping the Allies win World War II. Its builder was Andrew Jackson Higgins, a ...