Equipped with an innovative ramp design, two .30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day. Those landings, still the largest seaborne ...
Higgins boats and men lay broken and shattered ... he said in a written account composed 2½ weeks after D-Day. “A sheet of flame and steel shot out from the forward hold. The ship quivered ...