Ever wondered what it was like to land on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day? At the D-Day Ohio reenactment, we got a rare chance to experience the closest thing to it—riding in an authentic ...

This Higgins boat is one of nine known to exist in the world today, out of 23,000 that were made.” Meyer says the Higgins boat in Seward was built in early 1942.

Meyer says this Higgins boat was in the lead assault on Sicily. "Tarawa and the Pacific, the Marshall Islands, Saipan and Guam and the Philippines and Okinawa. Yeah, she’s quite the lady.

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 ...

Military history buffs, family of veterans and engineers, curious locals and several out-of-town visitors watched excitedly as a Higgins boat rolled into Pawnee Park on July 5. The boat, on ...

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 ...

The Higgins boat itself was rather small and simple. Its cargo space, located at the forward three quarters of the boat, could carry 8,000 pounds, or a little over 3,600 kilograms.

The Higgins boat itself was rather small and simple. Its cargo space, located at the forward three quarters of the boat, could carry 8,000 pounds, or a little over 3,600 kilograms.

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 ...

From 1932 to 1945, Higgins’ offices were located at 1755 St. Charles Ave., now the site of Houston’s Restaurant. Higgins, born in Nebraska in 1886, moved to New Orleans to manage a lumber company.

The 16-year-old ship is named for Marine Col. William “Rich” Higgins, a Vietnam veteran who was kidnapped by terrorists in 1988 in Lebanon and later killed.