Equipped with an innovative ramp design, two .30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day. Those landings, still the largest seaborne ...
Mr Higgins was on a wooden hulled boat named the Margrel in the early hours of September 22, 2020, when he made a desperate call to triple-0 asking for help. This was the second time in the same ...