D-Day 80th Anniversary: Looking back at how boats designed for Louisiana marshes made the invasion possible
New Orleans was home to Higgins Industries ... amphibious operation in the European and Pacific theaters, including D-Day in ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
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 ...