Description No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the Landing Craft he perfected.
These vessels, built in the tens of thousands, formed the armada that put Allied troops ashore in North Africa, the Aleutians, and Normand.
Those craft, the WWII LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, LCM, and LCS(L), are presented in this volume (the first of two on US Landing craft), along with the larger LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry).
Description No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the Landing Craft he perfected