As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Johnny Romanek was always tough.
Before.
It is around this time that news of World War II and its impact hits home. battery plant, his father secures him a job at the Ford Motor Company plant.
After Johnny works a grueling and dangerous labor job in a Clinton, N.
J.
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.
As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Johnny Romanek was always tough