Robert J. Dalessandro

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Robert J. Dalessandro
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Dalessandro in 2017
Born1958[ citation needed ]
New York City
AllegianceFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Service/branch United States Department of the Army Seal.svg United States Army
Rank Colonel
Other workMilitary historian

Robert J. Dalessandro (born 1958, in New York, New York [ citation needed ]) 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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Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Deputy Secretary [1] 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 . [2]

His book, Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917–1923 received the Army Historical Foundation award for excellence in writing.

Dalessandro is the former Chairman of the United States World War One Centennial Commission. He assumed those duties following the untimely death of former Congressman Michael Turtleton. He was appointed to the commission by the House Minority Leader, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California.

Published works

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References

  1. "Our Staff | American Battle Monuments Commission". www.abmc.gov. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
  2. Information for biography from Stackpole Books and Schiffer Military Publishing and www.usahec.org

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