You probably don’t expect to find a D-Day landing craft in the middle of Nebraska—but that’s exactly what’s waiting in Columbus. The Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial honors the Nebraska-born ...

The Higgins landing craft, dubbed the “Ghost Boat,” was said to be used to transport soldiers to the shore during the war’s beach invasions.

Higgins used his lumber-boat design to develop a landing craft that could ferry troops and supplies from ships to beaches during World War II. He built the boats in his New Orleans factory.

After adding a front ramp to the design, the famed LCVP “Higgins Boat” was born. Higgins’ amphibious boat designs allowed for the mass delivery of men and equipment from ship to shore. His ships were ...

In total, 23,000 Higgins Boats were manufactured during the war — which means other companies built them too. Still, the one found at the lake has a distinctive trait linking it to Higgins.

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, ...

A WWII-era Higgins landing craft was spotted this week resting halfway out of the water, the latest sunken artifact unearthed by the drought-stricken water source. The boat has been known to many ...

A Higgins boat, one that carried soldiers who landed on beaches across Europe, Asia and Africa, arrived at the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward on Thursday. Skip to content.

Higgins Boats were used in both the European and Pacific Theaters and the demand for those craft and others manufactured by Higgins Industries called for rapid expansion of the firm’s New ...

In fact, the WWII Museum’s boat is a replica, but it was constructed from an original set of plans from Higgins’ company. A few of the pieces of the boat are original, including the steel ramp.