https://andrewjacksonhigginsmemorialfoundation.org/
Posted on 06/07/2022 6:34:36 AM PDT by rktman
On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the green light for the largest amphibious military operation in history. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the heavily Nazi-fortified coast of France's Normandy region has come to be more popularly known as D-Day. On that monumental patriotic battle hung the balance of power in World War II (1939-1945) and the fate of the world.
"Higgins was not native to the South. … He grew up in Nebraska, where, at various ages, he was expelled from school for fighting. Higgins' temperament improved around boats. He built his first vessel in the basement when he was 12. It was so large that a wall had to be torn down to get it out.
"He moved South in his early 20s, working in the lumber industry. He hadn't thought much about boats again until a tract of timber in shallow waters required him to build a special vessel so he could remove the wood. Higgins signed up for a correspondence course in naval architecture, shifting his work from timber to boats.
"In the late 1930s, he owned a small shipyard in New Orleans. By then, his special shallow-craft boat had become popular with loggers and oil drillers. They were 'tunnel stern boats,' whose magic was in the way the 'hull incorporated a recessed tunnel used to protect the propeller from grounding,' according to the Louisiana Historical Association.
"Higgins called it the 'Eureka' boat. The war brought interest by U.S. forces in a similar style vessel to attack unguarded beaches and avoid coming ashore at heavily defended ports. The Marines settled on the Higgins boat, transforming what had been a 50-employee company into one of the world's largest manufacturers.
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Sorry Mr Higgins, we know you invented that boat and helped win WWII, but we don’t like your racist name. Now go share a cell with Dr Seuss.
Not funny
One of the most unknown of the unknown heroes of D-Day was a man who never set foot on a Normandy beach, never commanded a single troop and never wore a uniform – Andrew Jackson Higgins.
Higgins was also known as being tough, wild and wily.
He once hung a sign at his company that said, “Anybody caught stealing tools out of this yard won’t get fired – he’ll go to the hospital.”
LOL! Yeah, I thought that as well.😁
There is a nice exhibit dedicated to Higgins at the WWII museum in NOLA.
The “I am only one” quote in the article came from Edward Everett Hale.
Higgins’ life reminds me again of the words of D. L. Moody, who once wrote next to Isaiah 6:8 in his Bible: “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God I will do.”
Indeed. It’s why the museum is located in NOLA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_WWII_Museum
The museum opened as the D-Day Museum, on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day, focusing on the amphibious invasion of Normandy. As the Higgins boats, vital to amphibious operations, were designed, built, and tested in New Orleans by Higgins Industries, the city was the natural home for such a project. Furthermore, New Orleans was the home of historian and author Stephen Ambrose, who spearheaded the effort to build the museum. Ambrose also wrote a book entitled D-Day in 1994, which describes the planning and execution of Operation Neptune, which was launched on June 6, 1944. The early emphasis of the museum on D-Day, the location of Higgins Industries, and Ambrose’s connections to New Orleans were all factors in the museum being established in New Orleans.[6]
I share his opinion of tool thieves.
By repeating it, even though you do it jokingly doesn't shame or ridicule them, it elevates and inspires them because they know it's been planted in the minds.
It confirms they're winning.
The fact the woke left has no shame is hardly my fault.
Wow, do I feel stupid. My MIL lives in Columbus, and I and the children saw a Higgins boat memorial in the park. We went and toured it and I told the kids about what it represented. But I had no idea that Higgins was FROM Columbus, which explains why the park has a memorial to the Higgins boats.
Somewhat inaccurate. Higgins was an enlisted man, and then a junior officer (Lt.) in the Nebraska National Guard.
He participated in exercises in river crossings while in the Guard, before he owned his company. He was in his 20s, it seems, at that time.
That is a very thoughtful and true reply. Nicely put.
https://andrewjacksonhigginsmemorialfoundation.org/
"By September 1943, 12,964 of the American Navy's 14,072 vessels had been designed by Higgins Industries. Put another way, 92% of the U.S. Navy was a Higgins navy."
One of guys at my church drove one of those at D-Day. It was pretty horrible
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