US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Carson, CO)

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' ' '4-rf ' e fr-.. ,fu 4 'ff'-rf-r.v'rs-V-.,..,. 4 . Collins ' G n. arr ' f M Blog. 0 ay. e Harry I. Collins was born at' Chicago, Illinois, 7 December, 1895. After attending Western Military Academy at Alton, Illinois, and the University of Chicago, he was commissioned an second lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve and assigned to active duty 15 August, 1917. I-Ie received his regular commission as a second lieutenant of lniantry 26 October, 1917, and was promoted to lirst lieutenant ttemporaryl the same date. He was assigned to the Third Iniantry, remaining with this unit until October 1922, when he joined the 19th Infantry in Hawaii. He returned to the United States in May 1925, to' enter the Inlantry School at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and upon graduation a year later remained at the School as an instructor. In lune 1929, he became senior instructor at the 1st Corps Area Machine-Gun School at Ft. Ethan Allen, Vermont. and the following September returned to the Infantry School at Ft. Benning to take the advanced course. Upon completion of the course in Iune 1930, he was assigned to the Third Brigade, Second Division, at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, where he conducted a machine-gun school for the Third d Second Division. He was transferred to the Fourth Brigade, Second Division, at Ft. 'n Ianuary 1932, for duty as machine-gun instructor in the Fourth instructed won the first six places in the u Briga e. Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, i Brigade, Second Division. Six companies which he National Infantry Machine-Gun Competition in 1932. He entered the Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in August 1932, and upon graduation two years later entered the Army War College at Washington, D. C. He was graduated in Iune 1935, and was assigned to the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood 1 Arsenal, Maryland, from which he ws graduated in August 1935. 1 He then was assigned to Hawaii at Wailuku, Maui, as commander ol the Maui District of ' 4 the Hawaiian Department Service Command. including the islands of Molokai. Maui, Lanai, and Kahoolawe. ln September 1936, he assumed command of Kilauea Military Camp in Hawaii and Hawaii District of the Hawaiian Department Service Command. d to the United States to become assistant to the plans and training ' ' ' Vancouver Barracks. Washington, and com- ointed executive of In Iuly 1938. he returne oflicer of the Seventh Infantry, Third Division, at mander of the First Battalion of that regiment. In March 1939, he was app ficer of the Seventh Infantry. While on duty with the Seventh Infantry he was named G-3 oi the Alaskan Defense Force and made a detailed reconnaissance of the Aleutians and Alaska. The .following October he was assigned to the Sixth Infantry Division at Ft. Iackson, South Carolina. where he held the dual role of Assistant G-3 and G-2. He was ordered to Washington, D. C., in November 1940, for duty with General Headquarters of the Army, and the following February was appointed G-2 of the Sixth Infantry Division at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. He was attached to the British Army as a Military Observer in Iune 1941, later returning to his assignment with the Sixth Infantry Division at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. He became G-2 of the IV Army 'Corps at Camp Beauregard. Louisiana, in November 1941. The follow- ing 'April he activated the 354th Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, and commanded it at Fort Carson, Colorado. ln August 1942, he was named assistant commander of the 99th Intantry Division at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. He assumed command of the 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, 4 in April 1943. In December 1944. after a rigorous period of training which was interrupted by emergency calls tor thousands of the Division's basically-trained men, the Division was rushed , to the Rhine near Strasbourg where it played a major role in stopping the last German drive in 1 ' enth Army. General Collins then reformed his ' ' f sive position on the the West. Placed under General Alexander Patchs Sev unit and took it back into the line, relieving the 45th Division in a de en Yoder River. Iumping off on 15 March, 1945, the 42nd attacked through the Hardt Mountains and the vaunted West Wall tSiegfried Linel to cross the Rhine and capture among the larger cities, l Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, Furth-Nuremberg, Dachau and Munich. 3 . He returned to the United States in luly 1948, to assume command of the Second Infantry 1 ' Division at Ft. Lewis. Washington. On 22 'Ianuary 1951, General Collins assumed command of the Post and the 8th Division, lc n South Carolina. General Collins departed Ft. lackson on 31 Ianuary 1952, to y U' S Embassy. Moscow, U: S. S. R. 1 ber 1952 at Camp Atterbury. I Fort Ft. lac so , assume duties as Military Attache, . . He assumed command of the 31st Dixie Division in Octo , When the 31st Division moved during February 1954, from Camp Atterbury to ved his headquarters to the Southern Colorado post, where f the 31st Iniantry Dixie Division rned to Indiana. g A Carson, Colorado, General Collins mo his new official designation became 'Commanding General o and Fort Carson'. Later. on 15 Tune 1954, when the 31st Infantry Division colors retu National Guard status and the colors of the 8th Golden Arrow Division took their place, General Collins continued to hold the otficial designation of 'Commanding General of the 8th Division and - Fort Carson'. X On 22 Iuly 1954, General Collins announcedhis retirement from active duty to be effective X h on 14 August 1954. making his home in the State of California. ii l -,-I 5 use .... -, h - , ,N I

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