SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - Efforts are underway to restore a Word War II landing craft, which was discovered last year at the bottom of California’s largest reservoir. According to officials at the ...

Adolf Hitler called him the "new Noah." Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said he was "the man who won the war for us." Everyone else called him “Mr. Higgins.’’ Andrew Jackson Higgins was the native Nebraskan ...

After reading a recent story about PT-305’s return to the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion at the National WWII Museum, Martin Audiffred submitted a Curious Louisiana query: “Where exactly was the ...

LAS VEGAS — Another object has been discovered as the waters in Lake Mead continue to shrink. The Associated Press reported that a World War II-era landing craft appeared last week after it previously ...

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 ...

BOAT THAT SANK HITLER: Museum also honors the man who designed the ramp-fronted landing craft. A former brewery just blocks from Harrah's Casino in the Big Easy might not seem the obvious location for ...

During the 1930s, Higgins Industries perfected a work boat, dubbed the “Eureka’’ model, designed for the swamps and marshes of the Gulf Coast. The shallow-draft boat could operate in just 18 inches of ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower once credited with winning World War II, was a wild and wily genius. At the New Orleans plant where his company built the boats that brought troops ...

Two green helmets with scratches sit on a bunk. Metal dinner trays are stacked in the kitchen — the actual ones used by servicemen for meals. An old Jeep is parked on board with a Red Cross emblem and ...