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Odder things have happened. During the Italian Campaign one general had a quiet young fellow of obvious Italian decent as his driver and bodyguard. This man was a US citizen born in NYC but he got caught in Italy in 1941. He was a Mafia hitter who had been sent to Sicily to cool off as Dewey's boys were after him. He was hidden by his Sicilian connections from the Mussolini Italians and presented himself to the US Army as soon as the Sicilian Campaign was over. He had a draft card and was inducted ‘outside the territorial limits of the United States’. He was a very good combat infantryman and his battalion and company officers tried to get him the BSv and the Silver Star. He refused both. He did not want any publicity. This fellow was very popular with his comrades as he was a fine soldier who never boasted or bragged and seemed to have magical powers to summon up wine, good food, and good looking women when ever his unit was out of the battleline. When the division commander found out about the anonymous super soldier he sent for him and the young man recognized a deal he couldn't refuse and spent the rest of the war guarding the general. The general arranged for him to be decorated with the Bronze Star and Silver Star privately and classified the documentation. The general was very fond of his bodyguard especially since he introduced him to the stunning young woman who would become his mistress and eventually after his first wife's demise his wife.At the end of the war ‘Tony’ was quietly demobilized at Pine Tree Camp (Ft Drum) and returned to the Big Apple. No one ever heard from him again. Some thought he was one of Charles Lucky's intelligent gofers who shuttled back and forth from Italy to the US after Charles was deported.