LOUIS ZAMPERINI, 97, ( 1917-2014)
Died July 2, 2014.
Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner, a World War II prisoner who endured torture and humiliation and whose life inspired the book and film "Unbroken."
Mr. Zamperini was the "Torrance Tornado who set a national high school record for running the mile. In 1936, he was known as "The Zamp" as an 18-year-old University of Southern California standout who was good enough to go to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and roomed with Jesse Owens.
In 1943, he was Lt. Zamperini, a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator, who, along with ten other crew members disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.
The film is to be released on December 25th and is based on the best-selling 2010 book of the the same name written by Laura Hillenbrand. I was already planning on seeing it, but especially now..
GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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