Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft.

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats ...

D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe had commenced. Tightly packed troops crouch inside their LCVP as it plows through a wave. In the distance is the coast of Normandy. The National WWII Museum ...

The Landing Craft Vehicle Personal (LCVP), better known as the Higgins boat, was a specialized landing craft used for amphibious assaults and helped win WWII. When the U.S. entered the conflict ...

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 ...

As a coxswain of an LCVP landing craft during Operation Overlord, George Thomas Poe had one of the most unique views, as well as one of the most unique experiences, of the D-Day landings.

A Mk2 Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel (LCVP), the Foxtrot 8 contributed to taking the task force off the ships, and onto the beach, for Liberation of the Falkland Islands. It also helped provide ...

Invented by 2019 NIHF Inductee Andrew Higgins, the Higgins Boat, or Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), was used to land American troops on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. This ...

Dunsdon discovered the LCVP (landing craft, vehicle, personnel) in 2021 half-submerged in drought-stricken Shasta Lake in Northern California. The Cattle Bank & Trust and family members of the ...