Elementals (DC Comics) for his flamboyant personal conduct, including use of a motorcycle escort with flashing lights and sirens when he traveled. He trained the 42nd Division in the United States for 16 months before departure for overseas service. In December 1944, the division arrived on the Western Front in the European Theater of Operations. The 42nd Division, under Collins and aided by Brigadier General Henning Linden as his ADC, played a major role in stopping the last German drive into Western Europe, known as the Battle of the Bulge. The division then went on to take part in the Western Allied invasion 	Harry J. Collins
20267212	of Germany. Dachau liberation. The 42nd Division was credited with the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. As commander of the 42nd Division, Collins had defied convention by naming Rabbi (Captain) Eli Bohnen as the division chaplain, despite not having a large number of Jews in the division. According to contemporary accounts, Collins was moved by the plight of the prisoners he saw at Dachau, and took extraordinary measures to ensure they immediately received housing, food and medical attention. His example enabled Bohnen to successfully appeal for assistance from civilians in the United States, requesting items that the army was 	Harry J. Collins
20267213	not prepared to supply, including kosher foods, religious articles and cash donations. Postwar. Following Victory in Europe Day, the 42nd assumed occupation duty in western Austria, with Collins serving as military governor. In July 1948, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington, and later assumed command of New York-New Jersey area headquarters at Fort Totten, New York. In January 1951, he was assigned to command the 8th Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. A year later he was appointed military attache in Moscow, afterwards returning to the United States to command the 31st 	Harry J. Collins
20267214	Infantry Division at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Retirement, death and burial. He retired from the army after 37 years in 1954 and worked as a vice president for North American Van Lines and a consultant to the Human Research Organization at George Washington University. Collins subsequently moved to Colorado, where he lived until retiring to Salzburg, where many Dachau survivors were initially transported after the liberation of the camp. In his later years he was in ill health and used a wheelchair as the result of injuries sustained in a car accident. He died on March 8, 1963, and was buried 	Harry J. Collins
20267215	at the Saint Peter's churchyard cemetery in Salzburg. Family. Collins' first wife was Maude Alice McAlpin Collins (1897–1955). They were the parents of a daughter, Patricia Coyle Collins (1919-2000). Patricia Collins was the wife of army officer M. Griffith Berg, who became a Japanese prisoner of war, and died in the Philippines in 1944. She later married Robert C. Williams (1914-2000). During his occupation duty in Austria, Collins met Irene Gehmacher, a native of that country. After his divorce from his first wife, he married Irene, who died in 1987. Controversy. Recent writers have found fault with 	Harry J. Collins
20267216	Collins and other officers who performed occupation duty after World War II, suggesting that they requisitioned luxury items from the Hungarian Gold Train for furnishing their offices and quarters — items allegedly taken from Jewish families by the Nazis during the war. Many items were not returned to their original owners, who could not be located, but were later sold at auctions, with the proceeds used to aid war refugees. Decorations. Collins was an honorary citizen of both Salzburg and Linz. Collins' ribbon bar included: Harry J. Collins Major General Harry John Collins (December 7, 1895 – March 8, 1963) was a 	Harry J. Collins
20267217	Elementals (DC Comics) Elementals (DC Comics) The Elementals are a fictional team of superheroes published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Super Friends" #14 (October 1978), and were created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon. Team history. The Elementals first appear inside four giant translucent jewels located in four different cities: a ruby appeared near the Gotham City Police Department's central station, an emerald appeared atop Metropolis' Galaxy Communications Building, a diamond appeared outside New York City's United Nations building, and a sapphire appeared on a beach near the Aquacave, Aquaman's headquarters. Superman fought a hooded man in  brown who called himself the Gnome. Aquaman fought a woman in a green fishlike costume who called herself the Undine. Elsewhere Wonder Woman fought a blonde woman in blue who called herself the Sylph. Additionally, Batman fought a fiery woman in a red reptilian costume who called herself the Salamander. Strangely, their costumes proved to be ill-fitted for their powers; despite this, the Elementals put the heroes in grave danger. The veteran heroes manage to subdue the Elementals with the help of Robin, the Wonder Twins and Gleek. Back at the Super Friends' Hall of Justice in Gotham City , Batman identified the four Elementals as self made local socialites. The Gnome was really Grant Arden, a chemical engineer and founder of Arden Chemicals; Sylph was actually the famous vocalist named Jeannine Gale, who first appeared in "Super Friends" #4; Undine was really Crystal Marr, best-selling author; and Salamander was Ginger O'Shea, who first appeared in "Super Friends" #6, an established fashion designer and the owner of the Chez O'Shea fashion boutique. Bruce Wayne had met all four the previous evening at the Carousel restaurant in the Wayne building. It turns out that another Gotham socialite by the name  of Sandor Fane had secretly shown the future Elementals a manuscript that he believed had been written by the legendary alchemist Paracelsus. Fane uses the manuscript to summon elementals and bind them to his victims, making them the unwilling hosts of four primal elementals: an actual Gnome, Undine, Sylph and Salamander. The elemental spirits now shared the bodies of the four humans. The spirits are not evil; in fact, they must perform good acts so they can gain true souls. Fane tricked them into believing the Super Friends were evil. He also gave them their costumes, apparently not knowing their  powers very well. The spirits and their human hosts come to an understanding, and become four new heroes pledged to assist the League in their fight against Sandor Fane (whom the League previously knew only as the world conquering Overlord). Ginger O'Shea designed new costumes for them using special new materials created by Grant Arden, which work better with their powers. From their descriptions what Grant creates seems to be the DCU equivalent of Unstable Molecules (with two of the costumes made out of "air" and "water"). Meanwhile, the Overlord unleashed four simultaneous element-themed attacks: in Texas, he went  after a Wayne Petroleum Complex, the city of Poseidonis was threatened with Greek Fire, Paradise Island was threatened by a meteor shower, and the JLA satellite was threatened by solar winds. All four attacks were thwarted with the help of the Elementals. Meanwhile, Batman and the Wonder Twins discover the Overlord's castle lair and defeat Sandor Fane. This was the only recorded appearance of the Elementals. Elementals (DC Comics) The Elementals are a fictional team of superheroes published by DC Comics. They first appeared in "Super Friends" #14 (October 1978), and were created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona