Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe to the Pacific ...

In all, the Higgins plants produced more than 20,000 boats during World War II. Higgins boats were used in every major American amphibious operation in the European and Pacific theaters.

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 ...

American boatbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins is 'the man who won' World War II – here’s his victorious story Andrew Jackson Higgins built shallow-draft boats in New Orleans for Delta oilmen and ...

The boat, one of only 16 left in the world, was discovered 18 months ago at the bottom of Lake Shasta in Northern California. It will be dedicated in Seward ...

Higgins Boats are old. With most being built during the early 1940s, this partially submerged boat could be as old as 80. They are wooden, 36-feet-long and weigh approximately 15,000 pounds.

Higgins boats were made out of mahogany plywood, and the boat in Lake Shasta is believed to have stayed preserved over the years by Lake Shasta’s cold water. Shasta-Trinity National Forest ...

The Higgins Boats were manufactured in New Orleans. KTBS-3 News first learned of the coin release while interviewing Richie Self, owner of American Coin and Collectibles on Pierremont Road in ...