Imagine a boat that had four walls, a ramp that fell down when it hit the shore, and looked like a shoe box. Do you think a boat like this could do miraculous things for the United States of America? Well, if you said yes , you're right.  The Higgins Boat was used during WW2. They were made in New Orleans, Louisiana by a man named Andrew Higgins. Andrew Jackson Higgins was a builder. He had a few factories in New Orleans. Andrew Jackson Higgins needed some strong wood for his next brilliant invention. He had no wood, so he contacted some builders in the Philippines and had them ship the country's  whole supply of mahogany wood (which is very strong wood). Now that he had so much wood, he made some blue prints of a boat that were 4 by 5 ft., they were around seventy pages all in all and they weighed around 50 pounds.
  Another name for the D-Day invasion was operation overlord. The Higgins Boats were such useful boats in the war they were said to have won the war for the Americans and their allies. They had fought against the Germans at Normandy, France, which is in northern France. The boats had four sides so that no one could shoot at the war troops and no water would get in. When the boats hit the shore the front flap fell down and all the men ran out and attacked. The Higgins boats carried very important supplies. They carried tanks, ammo, guns, machines  and soldiers. The Higgins boats could hold twenty to thirty soldiers while standing in ty. The Higgins Boat had traveled to many beaches on the northern coast of France. The coast was called Normandy. At first the Germans knew that The United States was going to attack but they didn't know where. All of the German defense forces were on the German coast. That's where they thought they were going to attack. Actually they attacked at the Northern coast of France. The U.S sent out some phony ships to make the Germans think that they were attacking. The United States had been planning the D-Day invasion for months and months. All of the troops of the U.S had gotten on to boats and planes and started off to Normandy. The armada of ships and planes estimated to about 5,000. They all went to Normandy. The started attacking the german troops at Normandy. Then after the boats and planes had attacked, then the biggest part of D-Day started. In the higgins Boats there was lots of vomit and eurin from all of the nervous troops on the boat.  All of the Hundreds of Higgins Boats landed at the beaches of Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword. The boats landed and all of the troops ran out of the boats. The D-Day invasion was successful accept for all of the deaths of the war troops.
          Eisenhower, the general and the present day  president of the United States of America, said that if the boats weren't there on D-Day, the war would have gone on much longer. He said that Higgins was a mastermind of mechanics. He also said that if the operation overlord did not work, it was his fault alone.  The Operation Overlord lasted for months but D-Day lasted for one day on June 6, 1944.  The Higgins Landing Craft changed the history of the second world war.