Remembering Dec. 7, 1941: Veteran Was Spurred to Enlist After Pearl Harbor
Nearing his 92nd birthday, Jerry Legow had a front row seat on World War II action.
Longtime Creve Coeur resident Jerry Legow not only remembers almost every detail of the European campaigns of World War II, he'll prove it with rapid-fire bursts of facts that fly as fast as 50-caliber machine gun bullets. Soon to be 92 years old, Legow needs no encouragement. He will often pose his own questions in one breath and quickly answer them in another. "So you say you want to know about Pearl Harbor? What do you want to know? Ask me anything," he asks Creve Coeur Patch. Let's start with where you were on December 7, 1941? "I was dancing. Now what else do you want to know?" You were dancing when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? "Yes, dancing. I was at an afternoon dance in my hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio." Were you …
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