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 ...

Seventy years ago, the world was convinced that Louis Zamperini was dead. There had been no word of the track star and former Olympian since his World War II bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The ...

After surviving a bomber shootdown and weeks adrift at sea, U.S. airmen Louis Zamperini and Russell Phillips were captured by Japanese forces in the Pacific. Their survival ordeal became only the ...

Eighty-two years ago, the world was convinced Louis Zamperini was dead. A death certificate was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt because there hadn't been news from the former Olympic athlete ...

Louis Zamperini is the very definition of survivor. In 1941, Zamperini, from Torrance, Calif., enlisted in the Army Air Force. In April 1943, while on a rescue mission looking for a downed aircraft in ...

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 ...

In a May 20, 1939 photo, Louis Zamperini of he University of Southern California breaks the tape and record with a time of 4:16.3 to win the mile run in the Pacific Coast Conference Track and Field ...