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The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. The craft was designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana, based on boats made for operating in swamps and marshes. More than 20,000 were built, by Higgins Industries and licensees. Landing craft Rapière LCU 1656 departs USS Bataan (LHD-5) well deck during Hurricane Katrina relief operations. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Andrew Jackson Higgins (28 August 1886 – 1 August 1952) was the founder and owner of Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of Higgins boats (LCVPs) during World War II. General Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as saying, Andrew Higgins . ...
Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city Baton Rouge [1] Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33°N - Longitude 89°W...
Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
 Men disembarking from an LCVP. Constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a platoon-sized complement of 36 men to shore at 9 knots (17 km/h). Men generally entered the boat by climbing down a cargo net hung from the side of their troop transport; they exited by charging down the boat's bow ramp. Image File history File links LCVP-1. ...
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Toy constructed from plywood. ...
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Specifications - Displacement: 18,000 lb (8,000 kg) light
- Length: 36 ft 3 in (11.0 m)
- Beam: 10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
- Draft: 3 ft aft, 2 ft 2 in forward (0.9, 0.7 m)
- Speed: 9 knots (17 km/h)
- Armament: 2 × .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns
- Crew complement: 3
- Capacity: 36 troops or 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) vehicle
or 8,100 lb (3,700 kg) general cargo - 225 hp (168 kW) Diesel (gray) or
250 hp (186 kW) gasoline (Hall-Scott) engines Image File history File links LCVP-plan. ...
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Design history Andrew Higgins started out in the lumber business, but gradually moved into boatbuilding, which became his sole operation after the lumber transport company he was running went bankrupt in 1930. Fortuitously, the Marine Corps, always interested in finding better ways to get men across a beach in an amphibious landing and frustrated that the Bureau of Construction and Repair could not meet its requirements, began to express interest in Higgins' boat. When tested in 1938 by the Navy and Marine Corps, Higgins' Eureka boat surpassed the performance of the Navy-designed boat and was tested by the services during fleet landing exercises in February 1939. Satisfactory in most respects, the boat's major drawback appeared to be that equipment had to be unloaded, and men disembarked, over the sides—thus exposing them to enemy fire in a combat situation. But it was put into production and service as the Landing Craft, Personnel (Large), or LCP(L). The LCP(L) had two machine gun positions at the bow. The LCP(L) was supplied to the British where it was initially known as the "R-boat" and used for Commando raids. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 775 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 619 pixel, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)USS Darke (APA-159)s, LCVP 18, possibly with Army troops as reinforcements at Okinawa, circa 9 to 14 April 1945. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 775 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 619 pixel, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)USS Darke (APA-159)s, LCVP 18, possibly with Army troops as reinforcements at Okinawa, circa 9 to 14 April 1945. ...
USS Darke (APA-159) was a Haskell-class attack transport built and used by the US Navy in World War II. She was a Victory ship design, VC2-S-AP5. ...
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The UKs Royal Marines in a Rigid Raider assault watercraft A marine corps (from French corps de marine) is a branch of a nations armed forces incorporating Marines, intended to be capable of mounting amphibious assaults using infantry, armour, aircraft, and watercraft. ...
Eureka (or Heureka; Greek ) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word). ...
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The Japanese had been using ramp-bowed landing boats in the Second Sino-Japanese War since the summer of 1937—boats that had come under intense scrutiny by the Navy and Marine Corps observers at Shanghai in particular. When shown a picture of one of those craft in 1941, Higgins soon thereafter got in touch with his chief engineer, and, after describing the Japanese design over the telephone, told the engineer to have a mock-up built for his inspection upon his return to New Orleans. Combatants Republic of China Empire of Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Xue Yue, Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai Fumimaro Konoe, Hideki Tojo, Matsui Iwane, Jiro Minami, Kesago Nakajima, Toshizo Nishio, Yasuji Okamura, Umezu Yoshijiro Strength 5,600,000 4,100,000 (including 900...
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Within one month, tests of the ramp-bow Eureka boat in Lake Pontchartrain showed conclusively that successful operation of such a boat was feasible. This became the Landing Craft, Personnel (Ramped) LCP(R). The machine gun positions were still at the front of the boat but closer to the side to give access between them to the ramp. The design was still not ideal as the ramp was a bottleneck for the troops as was the case with the British Landing Craft Assault of the year before. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The Landing Craft Assualt (LCA) was the British and Commonwealth landing craft of the Second World War. ...
The next step was to fit a full width ramp. Now troops could leave en masse and a small vehicle such as a Jeep could be carried and it became the LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), or simply, the "Higgins Boat". the machine gun positions were moved to the rear of the boat.
Legacy of the Higgins boat No less an authority than the Supreme Allied Commander declared the Higgins boat to be crucial to the Allied victory on the European Western Front and the previous fighting in North Africa and Italy: During World War II, the Western Front was the theater of fighting west of Germany, encompassing France, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Denmark. ...
During World War II, the North African Campaign, also known as the Desert War, took place in the North African desert from September 13, 1940 to May 13, 1943. ...
- "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." — General Dwight Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson Higgins (28 August 1886 – 1 August 1952) was the founder and owner of Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of Higgins boats (LCVPs) during World War II. General Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as saying, Andrew Higgins . ...
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Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ...
See also Amphtrack, amtrak, amptrack, or alligator is a nickname for the amphibious tractor, a type of tracked amphibious armored personnel carrier, first seen in World War II. Origins The amphtrack had its origins in a civilian hurricane rescue vehicle called the Alligator invented by Donald Roebling in 1937. ...
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The Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) was a landing craft designed for carrying vehicles. ...
The Landing Craft Assualt (LCA) was the British and Commonwealth landing craft of the Second World War. ...
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