Andrew Higgins and his landing craft

General Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as saying, "Andrew Higgins ... is the man who won the war for us. ... If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ms/ship/lc.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Higgins

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