The bravery of those guys in those boats when that front ramp dropped down. Stephen Spielberg did us great favor by giving us at least an inkling of what that must have been like.
I saw a photo of U.S. soldiers leaving a landing craft and the caption said: “College age men leaving their safe spaces.” The way I heard it was Higgins’ company was in the lumber business before the war, and figured out they (company employees) could design and produce shallow-draft boats for oil industry construction crews to use in the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. The museum in Nuahleens is on Higgins St., of course.
“The bravery of those guys in those boats when that front ramp dropped down. Stephen Spielberg did us great favor by giving us at least an inkling of what that must have been like.”
Including the one negative: when that ramp dropped down it exposed everyone on board to gunfire from the shore.