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Joseph Lawton 'Lightning Joe' Collins General, U.S. Army. Joseph Lawton Collins was born on 1 May 1896 in Algiers, LA, the son of an Irish immigrant who had served as a Union drummer boy in the American Civil War. Joseph was the nephew of Martin Behrman, Mayor of New Orleans from 1904-20 and again from 1925 to his death in 1926.
Although J. Lawton Collins graduated from West Point in 1917, we have very little documentation concerning the first two decades of his military career. Documentation for the pre-World War Two period consists of a few items of correspondence, two reports by Collins, and some Army War College course materials, including two lectures by Collins.
1 de jun. de 2007 · Dulles to Collins, deptel 4330, 4 April 1955, box 3, Joseph Lawton Collins Papers (Vietnam File). I wish to thank General Collins and Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Rubino for making General Collins's Vietnam File available to me. The papers are now in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas (hereafter cited as DDEL).
Collins-JL. JOSEPH LAWTON COLLINS was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 1 May 1896; graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1917; was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 22d Infantry, April 1917; was promoted to first lieutenant, May 1917, and temporary captain, August 1917; attended the Infantry School of Arms at ...
J. Lawton Collins graduated from the US Military Academy as a second lieutenant of infantry on 20 April 1917. After basic branch training he served briefly at Fort Jay, New York, until assignment to Germany in 1919. He returned to the United States in 1921 and spent the next several years in school at Forts
Joseph Lawton Collins (1896-1987) was born as the 10th of 11 children in an Irish immigrant family living in Algiers, Louisiana, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. He decided to follow his older brother, James Lawton Collins, and embark on a military career. As an aside, the family's military service was nothing less than stellar.
J. Lawton "Lightnin' Joe" Collins (1896–1987), US Army General during World War II and the Korean War, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Major General J. Lawton Collins, CG, 25th Division, and Major Charles Davis, CO, 3rd Bn, 27th Inf., left, confer on New Georgia. 14 Aug 1943
