Скачать или смотреть How One Boat Builder Made D Day Possible…With a Simple Ramp and a Bold Idea

This documentary tells the story of Andrew Higgins, the New Orleans boat builder whose landing craft helped turn D Day from a plan into a possible operation. You’ll see how Higgins developed shallow-draft boats that could hit an open beach, drop a simple front ramp, and unload soldiers and equipment fast—reducing the deadly bottleneck that usually formed under machine-gun fire. We trace the early testing with the U.S. Marines, the push to standardize designs like the LCVP, and the industrial surge that produced landing craft in huge numbers. The episode also shows why this “small” invention mattered across the Pacific and Europe: amphibious warfare depends on minutes, not hours, and the ramp created a reliable way to bring men, jeeps, and supplies ashore without a captured port. This is a grounded look at engineering, manufacturing, and logistics in world war 2, and how a civilian factory line shaped world war 2 strategy across world war 2 theaters during world war 2.