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James George Kalergis was a career U.S. Army officer whose career spanned the World War II and Post-Vietnam eras and played a significant role in the post-Vietnam era reorganization of the U.S. Army. ==Youth and early career== Kalergis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on January 13, 1917. His father, George Demetrios Kalergis, and his mother, Nicoletta Vasilakos Kalergis, were immigrants from Greece. Kalergis graduated from Boston University. His education continued during his military career when he earned a masters degree in international relations at George Washington University and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He also attended U.S. Army officer training at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the Army War College. Kalergis enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1941, prior to the start of World War II. He was commissioned as a lieutenant after attending the Field Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1942. He served as an artillery officer with the 882nd Field Artillery Battalion. By November 1943, he was a captain and battalion adjutant and promoted to major shortly after the unit arrived in France in February 1945.〔 〕〔 〕 He was awarded the Bronze Star while with the 882nd which generally supported the 70th Infantry Division's 274th Infantry Regiment during the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns. From 1949 to 1952, Kalergis, as a major, was assistant professor of military science and tactics at Saint Bonaventure College, a Franciscan school in St. Bonaventure, New York.〔 〕 As a lieutenant colonel in 1954, Kalergis commanded the 36th Field Artillery Group's 597th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in Hanau, Germany. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James G. Kalergis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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