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.

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.

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

This Higgins boat is one of nine known to exist in the world today, out of 23,000 that were made.” Meyer says the Higgins boat in Seward was built in early 1942. “It was found in 2021 in Lake ...