To: Responsibility2nd
OK, I’m confused: was the Higgins Boat a PT Boat or a Landing Craft?
6 posted on
06/06/2019 12:18:57 PM PDT by
Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill
Higgins Industries built several variants of the landing craft and they also built PT boats along with a couple other manufacturers.
To: carriage_hill
OK, I’m confused: was the Higgins Boat a PT Boat or a Landing Craft? Two entirely different boats, and two entirely different missions. "Higgins Boat" was actually a generic name given to shallow draft vessels that could beach and offload men/equipment. Andrew Jackson Higgins and his contribution to to WWII was the reason the WWII Museum is in NOLA. Absolute bucket list museum. I've been many times.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-higgins-boats
15 posted on
06/06/2019 12:46:11 PM PDT by
abb
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To: carriage_hill
16 posted on
06/06/2019 12:48:28 PM PDT by
Kommodor
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To: carriage_hill
A Higgins Boat is a landing craft.
The “landing craft, vehicle, personnel”, LCVP, that Eisenhower credited as indispensable to invasion by sea.
31 posted on
06/06/2019 2:11:06 PM PDT by
Pelham
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To: carriage_hill
38 posted on
06/06/2019 3:48:02 PM PDT by
PhiloBedo
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