Louis  Zamperini

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   * 26th January 1917

   + 2nd July 2014


Captain Zamperini attended Olympic games 1936 in Berlin as a long-distance runner. Finished 8th in the 5000-meter distance event.
In september 1941 he joined United States Army Air Corps.
He was bombardier on the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber in Pacific.
In May 1943, his bomber crash into the ocean and only 3 crew members survived.
He became the prisoner of war.
His life was an inspiration for the movie Unbroken (2014).