Demonstration of several LCPLs at Lake Pontchartrain during ceremony in New Orleans in 1944
Gift in memory of Andres N. Horcasitas, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Demonstration of several LCPLs riding up the Lake Pontchartrain seawall during ceremony for completion of the U.S. Navy's 10,000th Higgins Boat at Lake Pontchartrain. Soldiers are exisiting the landing crafts as crowds behind look on. "File No. 631C-24. Subject: 10,000th boat. Photographer: Rutherford. Date: Jul 23, 1944." New Orleans, Louisiana. 23 July 1944.
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Items from the 10,000th Higgins Boat event in New Orleans as experienced by Andres N. Horcasitas, Honorary Guest from Mexico as a Representative of the Minister of the Interior.
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New Orleans
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29.950
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-90.067
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Soldiers--American--Louisiana
Military training--Louisiana