Andrew J. Higgins

(1886-1952) born in Columbus, lived in Omaha. Industrialist and shipbuilder, developed landing craft for use in wartime, more than 1,500 Higgins landing craft participated in 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, was called by Dwight D. Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us," manufactured recreation vehicles and airplanes after the war. Consult Jerry E. Strahan, Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that won World War II (Louisiana State University Press, 1994) and American National Biography, Vol 10 (1999) 751-752 and Columbus Telegram, August 16, 2001, 20-page supplement and Omaha World Herald, August 18, 2001, pp. 1-2.

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