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Higgins Boats Andrew Jackson Higgins’ and the Boats that Won World War II President Dwight D. Eisenhower said Andrew Jackson Higgins was “the man that won the war for us.” Although Higgins’ design for a shallow draft water craft was unintended for use during World War II, he became responsible for producing the majority of the amphibious assault landing craft, primarily the Landing Craft Vehicle Person (LCVP), which led to an allied victory in World War II. The “Higgins Boats” rapid and efficient mass production, effective design, and diversity led them to be the most prominent vessels during World War II. Andrew Jackson Higgins started out as the owner of a small company called A.J. Higgins Lumber and Exports. As he began to purchase land for logging, he found a need for a boat that could handle the difficult task of carrying heavy loads of logs through extremely shallow waters. Present day boats of the time with drafts shallow enough to manage the depth lacked the power necessary to haul such weight. Higgins solution to this problem was to design and build a boat with a “recessed propeller” into a tunnel in the hull to protect it. Although higgins, boats, boat, craft, war, design, landing, navy, higgins’, world, without, water, shallow, over, jackson, ii, beach, speed, new, heavy, draft, construction, andrew, amphibious, under, time, supplies, small, military, long, led, large, industries, eureka, bow