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 ...

Former Olympic athlete and WW II hero Louis Zamperini is 96 years old. (Or, as he puts it, "I’m 96 and a half.") Throughout his youth, he enjoyed Santa Monica’s beaches as he was raised in nearby ...

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 ...

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 ...