James E. Dalton

James E. Dalton
James E. Dalton
	Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
Battles/wars	Cold War; Vietnam War
Alma mater	University of Michigan

James Edward Dalton (born October 17, 1930)^[2] is a former general and former chief of staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.

Biography

Dalton was born in New York City in 1930. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. In 1954 he graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.^[1]

After completing pilot training in 1955, Dalton joined the

Los Angeles Air Force Station, California. He was responsible for the development of the operational targeting programs for the inertially guided SM-65 Atlas, Titan and LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles.^[1]

The general attended the

C-130 Hercules commander, operations officer and deputy commander of C-130 operating locations.^[1]

From May 1968 to May 1969, he was a project officer in the Missile Division, Office of the Deputy for Strategic Forces, Deputy Chief of Staff, Research and Development, Headquarters

Industrial College of the Armed Forces, graduating in June 1970.^[1]

He was assigned as chief, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Branch in the Office of the Assistant to the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff for Strategic Arms Negotiations from June 1970 to August 1972. In this capacity he served with the United States Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Delegation as an adviser to the principal military delegate.^[1]

Dalton was vice commander of the

Air Force Outstanding Unit Award and the Military Airlift Command's Distinguished Wing Flying Safety Award for 1973 and 1974.^[1]

In February 1975 he became commander of the

Air Force Reserve and members of the Air National Guard not on extended active duty, and personnel support for mobilization of the Air Reserve Forces.^[1]

From November 1976 to May 1977, he was deputy director of concepts in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations at Air Force headquarters. In June 1977 he was assigned to the Organization of the

Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He served as director of the Joint Staff from July 1981 until assuming his duties as chief of staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in August 1983.^[1]

He was promoted to general on August 1, 1983, and retired twenty three months later to the day.[1] In 1998, he was inducted into the Brooklyn Technical High School Hall of Fame.^[3]