May 2, 2024

Meet the American who ‘won the war for us’: Andrew Jackson Higgins, World War II New Orleans boatbuilder

Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean, yet forever changed war fought from sea.  He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing craft that delivered Allied troops onto hostile beachheads from North Africa to Normandy to Iwo Jima and countless battle zones in between.  Higgins “is the […]

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