Joe DiMaggio’s father was an Italian immigrant fisherman in San Francisco.
For the duration of the war the US government impounded his fishing boat.
They were afraid he’d link up with U-boats lurking offshore.
Fort Meade, home of the NSA, the puzzle palace.
Not many people realize that it was an interment center during the war:
Of Italians and Germans...!
Gosh, I wonder why so few people know that, eh..?
The mob protected our Eastern ports, they hated Mussolini with a passion, and the US Government took advantage of that.