Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, BB King, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley were incredible musicians, and they all served our nation in the military! What called this to my attention was a veteran and his wife stopping me the other day at the Ontario Post Office, to tell me just how surprised he was to learn that Tony Bennett served in the U.S. Army during World War II â this was before he was Tony Bennett. His real name was Anthony Benedetto and was drafted into the Army in 1944, and was a front-line infantryman across France and Germany. Tony had several brushes narrowly escaping death, but went on to help liberate Nazi concentration camp and freeing prisoners of war. Tony was with the Armyâs 63rd Division.