Education
Dalessandro graduated from the with a degree in History in 1980. His graduate studies included work at the College of William and Mary, the United States. Army War College and George Washington University.
Dalessandro graduated from the with a degree in History in 1980. His graduate studies included work at the College of William and Mary, the United States. Army War College and George Washington University.
Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the United States. Army and the Deputy 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, District of Columbia Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy. 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 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. 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.