Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft.

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The role played by Coast Guard personnel who crewed the Higgins boats was critical to the success of the D-Day landings in ...

Commonly called Higgins Boats, his landing craft were officially known in military parlance as LCVPs (land craft, vehicle, personnel). They were built to quickly unload men and equipment in ...

In 2019, the Army moved to divest a significant number of its vessels, moving about half of its Landing Craft Utility platforms to mothballs and closing down eight reserve boat units. These plans ...

A World War II landing craft — the same type famous ... Mead's receding waters is a World War II-era landing craft known as a "Higgins boat," a mostly-plywood vessel based on American swamp ...

The Higgins landing craft is nearly two-thirds exposed. It is beached less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemenway Harbor. The boat was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago ...