Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) Boat Model

Higgins Industries and Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration1943

U.S. National Archives
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Wooden scale model of a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) boat. Made by Higgins Industries. In October 1942, FDR visited a New Orleans factory operated by Higgins Industries, which built military landing craft. Company president Andrew Jackson Higgins later gave Roosevelt this model of a Higgins landing craft. On display in the World War II area of the Permanent Exhibit. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Museum Collection.

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Title: Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) Boat Model
Creator: Higgins Industries, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration
Date Created: 1943
Location Created: New Orleans, Louisiana
Medium: wood, paint, metal, string

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