Higgins boat PA31-17, which saw action in seven World War II battles, arrived at the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward after it was discovered in half-submerged in drought-stricken Shasta Lake ...

The Higgins boat is one of the iconic vessels of World War II. The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. The man behind it, Andrew Higgins, ...

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 troops ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean — yet he forever changed war fought from the sea. He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing craft ...

A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles the border of Nevada and Arizona. The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 ...

The story of the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward receiving one of the few remaining Higgins Boats from World War II will be told by Nebraska National Guard historian and retired Col. Gerald ...

Most people know him as the man who designed and produced the famed Higgins Boats that helped turned the tide in World War II, but just like everyone else, he was more than his job. More than 60 ...

SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - Efforts are underway to restore a Word War II landing craft, which was discovered last year at the bottom of California’s largest reservoir. According to officials at the ...

This boat was deserted in the desert. A WWII boat that was intentionally sunk in the major reservoir of Lake Mead is emerging from the water as the reservoir continues to shrink. Water levels have ...