https://www.cosanostranews.com/2011/02/gangsters-are-decorated-war-vets-too.htmlMatthew Ianniello joined army in WW2 and received a Purple Heart and a bronze star;
Carlo Mastrototaro, joined the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and won the Silver Star and for bravery and a Purple Heart for being wounded during the Battle of Saipan. He was mustered out of the Marines in 1944. His unit was virtually wiped out in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He later was a founder of the Worcester chapter of the Marine Corps League;
Pete Tamburello,Korean veteran;
John "Johnny Green" Faraci,bonanno made man, landed at Normandy in 1944 and earned himself a Bronze Star for having fought Hitler's Wehrmacht across Europe.
George Barone,served in the navy in Guam, Saipan, Leyte, Luzon, and Iwo Jima;
Venero Frank "Benny Eggs" Mangano served as a bomber tail gunner with the United States Army Air Corps in Europe and was decorated with a Distinguished Flying Cross (for "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight") and an Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and three Battle Stars;
Steve “The Rifleman†Flemmi, a Whitey Bulger associate and quite lethal mob killer, actually got his nickname not from his work on the street but rather in reference to his stint as a sharpshooter in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He enlisted at age 17 and served two tours of duty with the 187th Infantry Regiment and won both the Silver and Bronze Stars;
Any mbsters veterans of Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq wars ?
