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Hitler Called Him "The New Noah": Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Won WWII

Hitler Called Him "The New Noah": Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Won WWII

Update: 2025-06-09
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Eisenhower once said that D-Day would never have happened without this man's boat, born out of the swamps of Louisiana. This is the story of Andrew Higgins—the brash and bold Irishman whose boat-building plants employed one out of every five Louisianans during the war and helped seal the fate of both the Third Reich and Imperial Japan.

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Hitler Called Him "The New Noah": Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Won WWII

Hitler Called Him "The New Noah": Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Won WWII

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