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 ...

Louis Zamperini, subject of the best-selling book Unbroken and a 1936 U.S. Olympian at 5000 meters, will be honored Thursday night at a public memorial in Torrance, California, the Daily Breeze ...

A life story generally doesn't fit a neat dramatic arc; this much is a given. When you're telling the cinematic tale of a real-life person — as Unbroken does with the tale of Louis Zamperini — you're ...

"If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," Louis Zamperini once said of his years as an Army bombardier in World War II, "I'd kill myself." That's a rash statement, but after reading ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Former Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini, who died shortly after being named grand marshal of the 2015 Rose Parade, will be represented by his family at the annual ...

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 ...