John Salvani is pictured with his younger brother, Geno, who served aboard am LST (Landing Ship Tank) in the Pacific during World War II. The picture was taken in front of their parents’ Detroit, Mich. home. Photo provided

John Silvani grew up in an Italian neighborhood in Detroit, Mich., graduated from high school about the time World War II began and went to work at the Ford plant in Dearborn as a teenage tool-and-die maker after receiving a military deferment. Read the rest of this entry »