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Gerald Elmer Higgs joined the navy in November of 1942 and took boot camp at Farragut, Idaho. It was no picnic. Mr. Higgs served on LSTs and made the landings in North Africa and southern France, as well as serving in the Pacific. He is among more than 500 men and women from the Shreveport-Bossier City area and beyond who graciously gave their time to tell us their life stories of service and sacrifice. Were presenting these stories as part of our Oral History Project, an ongoing effort to interview veterans of conflicts from World War II to the present. We also seek the life stories of eyewitnesses to and participants in the civil rights struggle, pioneers of the energy industries, those who created The Shreveport Sound in music, and others. Click here to view additional photographs and to listen to the audio of his interview.