The National World War II Museum in New Orleans is displaying this full-scale recreation of a Higgins boat. ... puts a ramp on it and then it becomes the LCVP, ...

Guise is the Senior Curator for the National World War II Museum. “And the one that became known as the Higgins Boat.” Guise was standing in front of a replica of an LCVP, a Landing Craft ...

The boats were the brainchild of Andrew Jackson Higgins of New Orleans, who was building shallow-water boats for old and gas exploration in the bayous of Louisiana when World War II broke out.

The Higgins LCVP was one of the most critical vehicles used in WWII but also had some major issues. Here's the history behind the iconic vehicle.

Jerry E. Strahan, author of "Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II," details Higgins' progressive, efficiency-minded approach to business. Australian troops in an LCVP land on ...

During World War II, over 1,000 of the 20,000 or so landing craft vehicle personnel boats made were equipped with Beebe-made winches. Beebe Bros., based in Seattle, became part of Ingersoll Rand ...

Jerry E. Strahan, author of "Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II," details Higgins' progressive, efficiency-minded approach to business. Australian troops in an LCVP land on ...

The boat, named after its manufacturer, Andrew Jackson Higgins, is known as a landing craft, vehicle, personnel, or LCVP. It was used in World War II for amphibious beach landings, according to ...

A landing ship, tank (LST) that was used in World War II, the USS LST 325, is docked in Cincinnati and open to the public for tours. Out of 1,051 landing ship, tanks made during World War II, the ...