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13 de sept. de 1987 · J. Lawton Collins, 90, an aggressive hard-fighting Army officer who led American troops to key World War II victories as a general in Europe and the Pacific, died yesterday of cardiac arrest at ...
James Lawton Collins Jr. (5 November 1917 – 6 May 2002) was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, a military historian, and a viticulturist. He was the son of Major General James Lawton Collins, nephew of General J. Lawton Collins, who served as Chief of Staff of the Army during ...
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Tweet. Joseph Lawton Collins (1896-1987) was one of the most capable American Corps commanders of the Second World War, and one of a small number of senior officers to serve in both the Pacific and European fronts, commanding the 25th Division on Guadalcanal and the 7th Corps from D-Day to the end of the war.
J. Lawton Collins, wie er sich selbst schrieb, wurde 1896 in New Orleans geboren. Sein Vater, Jeremiah Bernard Collins, ein irischer Einwanderer und Veteran der Unionsarmee, besaß einen Lebensmittelladen in Algiers, Louisiana. Seine Mutter war Catherine Lawton.
Joseph Lawton Collins, né le 1 er mai 1896 à La Nouvelle-Orléans et mort le 12 septembre 1987 à Washington, D.C., est un général de l'armée américaine. Il sert durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale , dans le Pacifique et en Europe, puis durant la guerre de Corée .
14 de sept. de 1987 · J. Lawton Collins, the second youngest of 11 children, was born May 1, 1896, the son of an Irish native who joined the Union Army in the Civil War at the age of 16.
