Mile News Tagged Louie Zamperini


Louis Zamperini’s Epic Life May Finally Get Its Hollywood Movie

January 25, 2013

By Donna Littlejohn,  Los Angeles Daily News

Talk about a made-for-Hollywood plot.

Encompassing the sweep of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 47 days adrift in the Pacific evading sharks and the jarring brutality of two years in a Japanese POW camp, it's a story that plumbs the depths of one man's...

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Not Yet Ready for His Last Mile

February 15, 2003

''I don't consider myself a hero, but more of a grateful survivor.''

By Ira Berkow, New York Times

In June 1944, Anthony & Louise Zamperini were at their home in Torrance, Calif., when they received the following message regarding their son, an airman who at age 19 had been a member of the...

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