Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe to the Pacific ...

Kushner Restoration Pavilion at the National WWII Museum ... warfare and transformed Higgins into a household name,” says the exhibit’s text. A family of landing craft developed from the ...

By the late 1930s, his boat-building business eclipsed his lumber sales. With the onset of World War II, Higgins developed a number of small landing craft for the military. Perhaps the most famous ...