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During an informal conversation with his biographer, Stephen Ambrose, Dwight Eisenhower once remarked that it was Andrew Higgins (1886 – 1952) who had "won the war for us". Knowing that such words do not flow from the lips of generals easily, Eisenhower went on to explain to Ambrose that if it were not for the creation of Higgin's landing crafts, the architects of the Allied victory would have had to seize the existing, and well-fortified, harbors of Europe in order to unload their invasion forces - and who knows how the island-hopping war in the Pacific would been fought?

Attached is a five page photo-essay from the Fall of 1942 about the man and his early contributions.

FUN FACT: The Collier's Magazine issue of July 31, 1943, remarked that it takes a landing craft 38 days to travel from Florida to Massachusetts.

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Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)

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