Andrew Jackson Higgins - The Man Who Won the War?

According to Eisenhower, he was. You see, folks, if it wasn't for this guy, a ship-builder extraordinaire who perfected the landing craft, we probably wouldn't have been able to secure victory at Guadalcanal, successfully land our troops en masse at Normandy, etc. (the ships that the Navy itself had been building were pieces of shit and kudos to the Truman commission for veering the country away from them)......................................................................................And to say that it wasn't an easy road for the guy is an understatement in that, not only did he have to deal with the wretched Bureau of Ships, he also had to deal with the entrenched naval bureaucracy in general, the I.R.S. which was taxing the piss out of him, and a shitload of other government agencies. Thankfully, he was persistent......................................................................................P.S. Needless to say, the fact that a businessman was so instrumental in securing victory never quite fit the leftist historian's narrative and so all that we ever read about growing up was how great FDR, Ike, and Churchill (hard-core statists, for sure) were. Kind of a pity, huh?