Allegiance United States Rank Colonel | Role Author Name Robert Dalessandro Other work Military history | |
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Education Virginia Military Institute Books Army Officer's Guide, Willing Patriots: Men of C, Organization and Insignia o, American Lions: The 332nd Inf, 100 Greatest Military P | ||
Service/branch United States Army | ||
Willing Patriots | Robert J Dalessandro
Robert J. Dalessandro (born 1958, in New York, New York) is an American historian and author who has written and presented extensively on the American Expeditionary Forces contributions to the First World War.
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- Willing Patriots Robert J Dalessandro
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- Writing and political career
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Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Acting Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission He is former Director of the United States Army Center of Military History at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy.
Education
Dalessandro graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a degree in History in 1980. His graduate studies included work at the College of William and Mary, the U.S. Army War College and George Washington University.
Military career
He has had a wide variety of Army leadership and staff assignments including time as a platoon leader, command at company, depot and battalion level and staff assignments at echelons of command ranging from battalion through Department of the Army level.
Writing and political career
Dalessandro is widely published on the lifeways and material culture of the American Soldier in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. He is co-author of the Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1923, he serves as editor of the Army Officer’s Guide, co-author of Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, and Contributions of African American Soldiers and the American Lions: the 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I.
His book, Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1923 received the Army Historical Foundation award for excellence in writing.
Dalessandro currently serves as the Chairman of the United States World War One Centennial Commission. He assumed those duties following the untimely death of former Congressman Ike Skelton. He was appointed to the commission by the House Minority Leader, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California.