Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats that made the D-Day invasion in Normandy possible.

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats that made the D-Day invasion in Normandy possible.

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats afte… ...

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...

Six living World War II veterans attended the ceremony that the World War II Memorial hosted to honor the 400,000 Americans who died during the war.

Visitors check out the inside of the 1945 LCVP Higgins Boat at Roberts Armory, a World War II historical museum near Rochelle. The docent, dressed as Rosie the Riveter, talks about the vehicle and its ...

The only black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the Six Triple Eight, will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Sharma wants to interview as many World War II veterans as he can while they are still here to tell their stories in their own words. On Tuesday, he was at the Flower Mound home of 99-year-old Dr ...

Jardine began the discussion with a history lesson on Andrew Jackson Higgins’ Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), alternatively termed “Eureka Boats”, and the impact that vessel type had in ...

WWII veteran, 100, sharing songs of healing from combat as he plans return for Battle of the Bulge. Chester "Buck" Sloan, 100, is one of the last living WWII veterans.

ROCHELLE – Charles Roberts started preserving World War II equipment and memorabilia in 1987 when he acquired a 1943 White half-track.. Thirty-seven years later, that passion has evolved into a ...

LCVP (Landing Craft—Vehicle, Personnel), carried on LSTs or assault transports, has bow ramps, carries 36 men, a one-ton truck or four tons of cargo. Length: 36 feet.