Farewell Louis Zamperini
1917-2014
Olympic Runner, POW, World War II Veteran
Subject of the book, Unbroken
Louis Zamperini, an Olympic distance runner and World War II veteran who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after his bomber crashed, then endured two years in Japanese prison camps, died on July 3, 2014. He was 97 years old.
Zamperini is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which is being made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie and is scheduled to be released in 2014. (Source: BBC.com)
