LOS ANGELES -- 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 ...

Louis Zamperini, an Olympian and a war hero, has died at the age of 97. Zamperini ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and survived 47 days on a raft... Remembering Louis Zamperini, Olympian And War Hero ...

The movie “Unbroken,” the story of the amazing life of Olympian and World War II prisoner of war Louis Zamperini, opened this week on the day Christians celebrated the birth of their savior. Zamperini ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Ninety-seven-year-old World War II hero and former Olympian Louis Zamperini was named grand marshal of the 2015 Rose Parade on Friday. The Tournament of Roses announced the ...

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Louis Zamperini, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic track and field team who survived repeated torture for two years as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, died Wednesday from pneumonia at ...