The Higgins Landing Craft, Higgins Boat, Landing Craft, or whatever you would like to call it, is one of the most important ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Another piece of history is emerging from the once deep waters near the Lake Mead Marina. A WWII-era Higgins landing craft was spotted this week resting halfway out of the water, ...

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 ...

A PBS documentary this week marks the upcoming 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing in France and examines, among other things, Higgins boats, the chief American landing craft at Normandy. I first ...

American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...