Joseph Lawton Collins
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United StatesLived 1896 to 1987 · aged 91Fame55.7
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Joseph Lawton Collins was a senior United States Army officer. During World War II, he served in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations, one of a few senior American commanders to do so. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the Korean War.
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On the right, Major General J. L. Collins, commanding the 25th Division and, on the left, Major Charles W. Davis, commanding the 3rd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment confer on New Georgia, 14 August 1943
Major General J. Lawton Collins receiving the Companion of the Order of the Bath from British General Sir Bernard Montgomery at Mönchengladbach, 1944
Bradley (center with three stars on his helmet) and Collins, along with other senior officers, attend the funeral of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in Normandy, France, July 13, 1944. Roosevelt died shortly after D-Day.
Collins (right) explains to Lieutenant General Bradley (left) how Cherbourg was taken, July 1944.
Collins (far right), overseeing an air ground liaison briefing for Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz (glasses) and Lieutenant General James Doolittle (seated), at Collins' corps headquarters. Münsterbusch, Germany, November 19, 1944.
Collins with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding the 21st Army Group, and Major General Matthew Ridgway, commanding XVIII Airborne Corps and one of Collins' West Point classmates, December 1944.
Collins, on right with Walton Walker, on left and John H. Church, center in KoreaAwards 17
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Lived 1896 to 1987 · aged 91
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