Category:William LeGro

English: Colonel William E. LeGro fought in New Guinea and the Philippines as an infantryman from 1944 to 1945. Subsequent service included troop and staff duties in Germany and Korea. LeGro attended American University where he specialized in East and Southeast Asia. From 1964 to 1965 LeGro was assigned to the office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, specializing in Southeast Asia. LeGro then served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967 as G-2, 1st Infantry Division. Returning to the United States he served as Director of Asian Studies at the Army War College from 1969-1971. Returning to Vietnam in 1972 he was a senior staff officer with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and later with the U.S. Defense Attaché Office, Saigon, until the fall of Saigon on 29 April 1975. LeGro then wrote Vietnam from Cease-Fire to Capitulation while assigned to the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Following his military service LeGro has served as part of Task Force Russia and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs as a researcher.