Start with the record
Aldo L. Icardi appears throughout the family-supplied gallery as an OSS officer operating in northern Italy during World War II. The archive shows mission personnel, field activity, identification papers, military citations, medals, and later newspaper coverage.
The supplied pages also show that Major William V. Holohan was part of the Mangosteen Mission and that his disappearance became the central event around which later accusations formed. This website does not treat accusation as conviction. It separates surviving documents from later interpretation.
What the archive supports
- Icardi served with the Mangosteen Mission in northern Italy.
- The mission operated with Italian partisan contacts and wartime supply activity.
- Icardi received military recognition, including a Legion of Merit citation shown in the supplied records.
- Later newspaper coverage publicly connected Icardi to the Holohan case.
What the archive alone does not establish
- A complete, independently verified chronology of every event.
- A criminal verdict against Icardi.
- The reliability of every later newspaper characterization.