A local contract would have created over 1,300 jobs, expanded the state's apprenticeship pipeline, and reinvested millions ...

The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. ... Higgins remained at the helm of his company until he had a stroke and died in 1952.

From 1932 to 1945, Higgins’ offices were located at 1755 St. Charles Ave., now the site of Houston’s Restaurant. Higgins, born in Nebraska in 1886, moved to New Orleans to manage a lumber company.

As late as 1935, the company’s total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats.

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. Before the war, the company specialized in designing small shallow-draft boats for operating the ...

Andrew Higgins while celebrating his company's production of its 10,000th boat in July 1944. His company produced the famous amphibious landing craft, dubbed Higgins Boats, that allowed Allied ...

A World War II Higgins boat salvaged from a California lake is unveiled at the Nebraska ... Military contracts allowed Higgins to grow his company from 75 employees in 1938 to as many as 30,000 ...

The Higgins boats were key to victory in the war. “We had the best trained military, but you needed a way to get soldiers to shore for the assault,” Meyer said. “This was the truck that got ...

If the name Higgins rings a bell, it must be because Higgins Inc., the company that built this RV, also made the Higgins boats. The company was founded in 1946 in New Orleans as a commercial boat ...

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.

The company has shared scuba dive video of the Higgins boat when it was fully submerged years ago on its Facebook page. The park service said it started to dive at the Higgins boat site in 2006.

The 36-foot boat carried U.S. troops during the invasion of Sicily and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, officials said. How it ended up in Lake Shasta is a mystery.