Tony Bennett – Infantry

Multi-awarded singer Tony Bennett was only 18 when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944. Before he joined the Infantry 63rd Division, he received basic training and was later sent to France and Germany. During the final stages of the war in 1945, Bennett was fighting on the front line until he was reassigned to a unit in charge of disinterring mass graves. Once he arrived back to the USA in 1946, Bennett studied music and he performed wherever he could. However, he would pay his car and home insurance bills mainly by waiting tables for years until 1951 when he shot to stardom with his first single hit Because of You. It would take ten more years for him to record his signature song I Left My Heart in San Francisco. The rest is pretty much history.