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Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

ePub Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee by David W. Blight in History

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Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle; personnel) that played such a vital role in the invasion of Normandy as well as the first effective tank landing craft. During the war; New Orleans–based Higgins Industries produced over twenty thousand boats; including lightning-fast PT boats and the twenty-seven-foot airborne lifeboat. Higgins dedicated himself to providing Allied soldiers with the finest landing craft in the world; and he fought the Bureau of Ships; the Washington bureaucracy; and the powerful eastern shipyards to succeed. Jerry Strahan’s biography of Higgins reveals a colorful; controversial character―hard fisted; hard swearing; and hard drinking―who was an outsider to New Orleans’ elite social circles. He was also; however; a hardworking boatbuilder who became a major industrialist with a worldwide reputation―even Hitler was aware of Higgins; calling him “the new Noah.”


#703885 in Books Louisiana State University Press LSUP 1991-07-01 1991-07-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.90 x .70 x 6.00l; .90 #File Name: 0807117242312 pages


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