I have a friend who keeps the history of my old club the Brooklyn Italians. He was also my adult teams masseur.
He came to the US right after WW 2 with his wife. There both still alive. Very nice people but never learned to speak English. There are enough people who just spoke Italian to them so they never bothered to learn English.
Just shooting the breeze with him one day. The conversation got to his WW2 experiences. He was a machine gunner in the war.
He told me he must have killed 150 enemy soldiers in one battle at tobruck.
Then I realized he was our enemy back then. He fought for Mussilini and the 150 enemy he killed was English soldiers.
My uncle was a carabiniere and Mussolini's aid de camp he said me that when san Lorenzo neighborhood in Rome was bombardated he saw Mussolini cry. But my uncle after the 1943 stay with the 5th Army but only because he know that the Axe will lost the war although he would do with Mussolini in north italy to kill the partisans. There are the cases of life.
