The United States utilized many vehicles to win the Second World War, with everything from half-tracks and motorcycles to the most legendary tanks and strategic bombers. While every vehicle served its ...

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 after their ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander sang Higgins’ praises, stating that “Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us.” He went on to explain, “If ...

One of a handful of surviving Higgins boats is on display outside of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters and National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. National ...

As you likely know, it's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, undertaking the largest from-the-sea invasion in the history of human warfare and ...

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, ...