Collins, J. Lawton (Joseph Lawton), 1896-1987

President Harry S. Truman watching a demonstration of military hardware with other dignitaries, (unidentified) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Front row, left to right: Major General Edward MacMorland, President Truman, and General J. Lawton Collins. Seated in the second row, right, is Secretary of the Army Frank Pace. All others are unidentified.

Portrait of General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, who met with President Harry S. Truman on October 4, 1949, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, when the President visited this installation to review airborne maneuvers as well as to review 20,000 troops and inspect new artillery weapons.

Standing, left to right: Gordon Gray, Assistant Secretary of the Army; Lieutenant General J. Lawton Collins, Deputy Chief of Staff; Edwin W. Pauley, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Seated, left to right: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall, Major General William H. Draper, Under Secretary of the Army.

Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall with former and present members of his staff. Seated, left to right: General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff; Mr. Royall and William H. Draper, Under Secretary of the Army. Standing, left to right: Mr. W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of Air (Former Assistant Secretary of War for Air); Lieutenant General J. Lawton Collins, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army; and Mr. Edwin W. Pauley, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Pentagon Building, Washington, D.C.

President Harry S. Truman in front of a train at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Foreground, from left to right: Major General Edward E. MacMorland, Commander of Aberdeen; Major General Elbert L. Ford, Chief of Ordnance (behind MacMorland); Secretary of the Army Frank Pace; President Truman; General J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff; General Harry Vaughan (obscured by Collins). From: Harry H. Vaughan.

Portrait of General J. Lawton Collins; photograph is autographed to Col. Francis Williams.

Left to Right, leaving the White House following a meeting with President Truman are his top military and Defense Chiefs: General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff; John Foster Dulles, Foreign Policy Adviser; Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The nation's top military leaders hold a weekend meeting in Newport, Rhode Island (see 2002-98). Pictured are three who attended the meeting (left to right): General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief; Admiral Louis E. Denfield, Chief of Naval Operations; and General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff. From: Pershing Touseley, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Gen. Omar Bradley swears in his successor, Gen. J. Lawton Collins (right), as the new Army Chief of Staff. Among those present are L to R, second row: Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early; Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff; Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations; Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray; Mrs. Collins.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (left) swears in General Omar Bradley (right) as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Among those present are left to right, background: Dan A. Dimball (partially obscured), Under Secretary of the Navy; W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force; Gen. Lawton Collins, Vice Chief of Staff; General Hoyt Vandenberg, Chief of Staff; Mrs. Bradley; Gordon Gray, Secretary of the Army; Stephen Early, Deputy Secretary of Defense.