James Lawton Collins Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames Lawton Collins Jr.
US Army officer
Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1917
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 06-May-2002
Profession: historian
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About James Lawton Collins Jr.
- 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 the Korean War, and older brother of Apollo 11 astronaut Major General Michael Collins.
- He led a North Dakota National Guard artillery battalion in Normandy in 1944, and served as the U.S.
- Army Chief of Military History from 1970 to 1982.
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