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A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La. (LOC)

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  • Bagolina said:
    Thanks for this photo, I use it on my blog : phonotheque.hypotheses.org/5863
  • jeffa4444 said:
    I have a number of PT boat / MTB / ML boat photographs from WWII along with Australian Navy photographs one with General McArther in it how do I post these to The Commons?

Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La. (LOC)

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  • emptym said:
    Looks like a recruiting poster, with the attentive and determined pose, and the dramatic light from above....
  • shapp snott said:
    Oh yes!
  • Douglas Schroeter said:
    Sexy 40's man
  • Ekaterina Pavlichenko said:
    Dr. Robert Chase)

Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., makes torpedo boats and other boats for the Navy (LOC)

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  • Mr Flikker said:
    Higgins made the flat-bottom boats used by the Americans for the Normandy invasion. The D-Day Museum in NOLA has a big exhibit about them.
  • Clyde Poole said:
    This appears to be one of the Higgins buildings on the Industrial Canal. The last of these buildings were torn down in the 60's.