From 1999: The Higgins Boats that won WWII
2014 ж. 5 Мау.
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In this story first broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on June 6, 1999, Charles Osgood explores the history of the landing boats designed by Charles Higgins, which made possible the Allied assaults at Normandy and elsewhere during World War II, and meets veterans and boatbuilders recreating the iconic craft.
American genius, and grit , not forgotten over here in the UK , thanks for the everything
Terrific documentary! I learned a lot. Much respect for those that preserved our freedom!! Anyone who violates the law and commits a crime today is disrespecting those that sacrificed and gave it all ! God Bless!
What a guy, this Higgins. Even Eisenhower gave him a salute.
My grandfather drove 1 of those boats back and forth taking troops to Omaha until a round went through a piece of metal and struck him in the teeth and tongue but it wasn't fast enough to go all the way through.
My father was a carpenter 's mate on the APA ELMORE and was part of Higgins boat crew in the liberation of the Philippines in WW2
21,000 Higgins Boats x 36 men per TRIP. That's a crapload of men and materials could NOT have gotten there without Higgins.
The photo of Andrew Higgins sitting on a PT boat with a flag waving behind him, was on the wall of our house all my youth. My mother was Mr. Higgin's personal stenographer and my grandfather was a Coast Guard volunteer who guarded the Higgins docks at night. The boats had to disappear, they were made of mahogany plywood and it would not take too long after they were retired for the wood to begin to separate. Mr. Higgins died soon after the war and his son took over the business. He had tons and tons of mahogany stored which his father had bought even before the war as he was a visionary and could see the Japanese taking over the areas of the Pacific and cutting us off from the supply of mahogany. So the son had the idea that he could sell the wood as precut wooden floors for the hundreds of thousands of houses being build for the GIs who could buy a house costing $6000.00 with a GI Loan. They were installed and not long after that they began to shrink and curl, and of course this destroyed Higgins Industries.
Outstanding!!
I'm pretty sure the famous actor Eddie Albert was a Higgins boat driver during WWII.
The Greatest Generation, Amen.
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He’s my great great grandfather so that’s nice I guess
Andrew Higgins Is your great grandfather!!!!!!
We are related then? Because this my husbands great great grandfather.
Higgins💯
part of Higgin's boat came from the Japanese design. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu-class_landing_craft
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The design on these boats are suicidal. Should've had rear door models in D-day Omaha beach. With the gunman upfront. The Brown-Higgin design is safer for the soldiers and battle ready. The engineers actually protected the vehicles better than the soldiers.
John Fitzgerald how praytell would you design that? Thousands of men would have drowned.