As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Johnny Romanek was always tough. Born with a killer instinct to box, Johnny decides against becoming a prizefighter and instead follows the path of his father, Frank, an immigrant who fled Poland for better opportunities in America. After Johnny works a grueling and dangerous labor job in a Clinton, N.J. battery plant, his father secures him a job at the Ford Motor Company plant. It is around this time that news of World War II and its impact hits home. Before enlisting in the Army, Johnny elopes with his longtime sweetheart, Ann Cordone. A few years later...
As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Johnny Romanek was always tough. Born with a killer instinct to box, Johnny decides against becoming a prizefighter...
