Joey (Zone Troopers)
Background
Joseph "Joey" Verona is a Private First Class with the 3rd Infantry Division in the United States Army. He is from New Jersey and is the son of Angelo and Rose Verona.
During the events of Zone Troopers (1985) played by Timothy Van Patten
Somewhere in Italy in 1944, Joey is reading a Fantastic Fiction magazine, when Mittens asks him if he has the comic with the space alien women. Joey tells him he traded it for some Lucky Strike cigarettes and he trades Mittens the cigarettes for some candy bars. Dolan takes a photograph of Joey and Mittens and then introduces himself to them. A platoon of Nazi soldiers crests a hill and starts shooting at the squad of American soldiers. While running to the woods with Joey, Mittens and Dolan, The Radioman is shot in the back and killed. The Sarge then circles around the Nazis and kills them. As he is walking towards the others, he appears to be shot, but miraculously survives and kills the Nazi who shot him. Joey tells The Sarge he thought he was surely dead and when Dolan brings up the myth of The Sarge's invincibility, The Sarge says the myth is fake. They are suddenly attacked by a mortar group and The Alien uses a device to vaporize a large tree branch that is about to fall on them. They take shelter in a building for the night and while Joey is on watch, he sees The Alien, walks back into the shelter and puts his Fantastic Fiction magazine in the campfire. In the morning, Joey asks Dolan if he has known many soldiers that have gone crazy from battlefield stress and then tells him about what he saw last night. Dolan tells Joey he probably saw a moose and Mittens tells Joey he saw a deer while he was on watch. Dolan convinces Mittens to take him to where he saw the deer. Joey is playing an imaginary baseball game with baseball cards when The Sarge walks up and The Sarge gets upset when he finds out Mittens and Dolan left to hunt a deer. Joey goes to look over a hill and sees a crashed alien spacecraft. He and The Sarge enter the spacecraft and make their way to the cockpit as Nazi soldiers surround the spacecraft. They find the remains of The Alien's co-pilot. The Sarge uses the spaceship's periscope and sees they are surrounded by Nazis. Joey finds an escape hatch from the cockpit and he and The Sarge sneak out of the spaceship. As S.S. Corporal and his squad are searching the spaceship, The Sarge has Joey drop a grenade into it, killing them. Joey shows up wearing an S.S. uniform at the S.S. camp and tells Dolan and Mittens, The Sarge has a plan to rescue them. S.S. SGT. Zeller walks up to Joey and Joey knocks him unconscious. Manheim sees Zeller and initiates an alarm. Joey, Mittens and Dolan get into the truck holding The Alien and driven by The Sarge and they escape from the S.S. camp and also kill Zeller. A nazi fires a rocket at the vehicle, but The Alien uses a device to create a force field and Joey thanks The Alien. The Sarge parks the truck and has Mittens disable it. They find a tomb and hide inside of it for the night. Mittens pulls out a cigarette to smoke and The Alien takes it from him and eats it and then shows Mittens and Joey a glowing green device which he trades for another cigarette. Joey activates the device and The Dream Girl appears suddenly. Joey walks up to The Dream Girl and they kiss. Mittens takes the device and as he is trying to use it, The Dream Girl disappears. The next morning they discover The Alien missing and head towards the crashed rocket ship. They arrive and find another spaceship landed. The Zone Trooper Captain, The Alien and three more Zone Troopers walk towards the spaceship. Joey and Mittens run up the Zone Trooper Captain and introduce themselves and he uses a device to translate their words. The Zone Trooper Captain and the others then start to walk away and after Mittens ask if they have any women, the Zone Trooper Captain tells him The Alien is a female. The Alien shakes Joey's hand and then walks onto the spaceship with the others. Suddenly a Nazi tank enters the clearing and as Joey goes to help The Alien, the tank fires a round and Joey is hit. The Alien then uses a device to evaporate the tank. The Sarge runs to Joey and before dying, Joey asks Dolan to write about their story.
