Robert J. Dalessandro

Robert J. Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the current Assistant Chief of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. He has had a lifelong passion for military history and the material culture of the American soldier. Colonel 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, where he studied Historical Archeology, a Masters of Military …