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Boat Builder

July 2026
1min read

Your May/June 2000 issue was well worth keeping. For Stephen E. Ambrose and veterans of World War II, the opening of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Eouisiana, was a long-awaited dream come true. It is a special day for me also. I am the proud daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, whose landing craft and PT boats helped make a victory possible for the Allies in World War II.

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