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3 February 2002's honorary unsubscribe went to Graham Guilford Haddock Jr. Haddock worked as a draftsman for Higgins Industries of Louisiana in the late 1930s when the company was asked to design a special boat. Fooling around with a cigar box in his home workshop, he came up with a design. His colleagues thought it was too complicated, but Mr. Higgins liked the idea so much he used it to produce more than 12,000 of them: the box-like boats with a mechanical ramp used by Allied troops for the 1944 invasion of Normandy. Allied supreme commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower later called the landing craft key to winning World War II. Haddock stayed with the company through mergers and buyouts until his retirement in 1982. He died February 6 from cancer at age 84.