The late jazz singer Tony Bennett served in the US Army during World War 2 and liberated a concentration camp. He was once demoted because he had dinner with a Black friend when soldiers were ...

Tony Bennett singing with a U.S. Army Band, 1945. (TonyBennett.com) In 1946, he set sail for New York, where he was honorably discharged on Aug. 15, where the war had "changed everything in ways I ...

Tony Bennett sings with the U.S. Army Band in 1945. (Photo courtesy of TonyBennett.com) He adopted the stage name Joe Bari and began singing with the 314th Army Special Services Band. He couldn't ...

Tony Bennett (center), an Army private, ... When he turned 18 in 1944 he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Bennett arrived at the war zone in January 1945, ...

Tony Bennett, who had a seven decade-long career as a jazz and pop singer, ... his personal ambitions were put on pause as he was drafted into the U.S. Army and saw action during World War II.

Tony Bennett, king of the American Songbook, ... including the song "St. James Infirmary Blues," which was made right after World War II with a U.S. Army band in Germany. YouTube.

Tony Bennett was always true to who he was and yet was always growing. His career provides lessons about what it means to innovate while retaining your authenticity.

Tony Bennett died Friday at the age of 96. NBCUniversal via Getty Images. The “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” singer — who often said in interviews later in life that he wanted to be ...

Tony Bennett, the affable pre-rock standards crooner who bridged generations and found a new late-career audience, has died at age 96. ... Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, ...