Welcome to the Canteen, AngelesCrestHighway...great picture of a Higgins boat. (I just learned what the boats were called last evening.)
“Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us.”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1964 interview
The President went on to explain: “If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs (Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel), we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different.”
And as Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret) said, “The Higgins boats broke the gridlock on the ship-to-shore movement. It is impossible to overstate the tactical advantages this craft gave U.S. amphibious commanders in World War II.”