Louis Zamperini
✓ Source-basedrisingItalian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran
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Louis Silvie Zamperini was an American World War II veteran, Olympic distance runner, and Christian evangelist. He began running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he finished eighth and set a new lap record.
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Zamperini wearing a Torrance High School track uniform, 1938
Japanese-occupied Nauru Island under attack by Liberator bombers of the Seventh Air Corps, April 1943.
Zamperini examines a hole in his B-24D Liberator Super Man made by a 20 mm shell over Nauru.
Zamperini at the announcement of 2014 Tournament of Roses Grand Marshal
Louis Zamperini Plaza on the campus of the University of Southern California
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United StatesCategory
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deceased
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Lived 1917 to 2014 · aged 97
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