SEWARD, Neb. (KOLN) - The Nebraska National Guard Museum recently celebrated the 4th of July with the arrival of a Higgins boat that was found in a California lake. We caught up with Jerry Meyer, who ...
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 ...
The Higgins boat is one of the iconic vessels of World War II. The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. The man behind it, Andrew Higgins, ...
Higgins boat PA31-17, which saw action in seven World War II battles, arrived at the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward after it was discovered in half-submerged in drought-stricken Shasta Lake ...
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 ...
A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles the border of Nevada and Arizona. The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 ...
NEW ORLEANS - The PT-305 boat rolled down the streets of New Orleans Saturday as it returns home to The National WWII Museum Campus. Obtained by the Museum in 2007, PT-305 was originally housed in KRP ...