louie zamperini

Question 1

zamperini youth

Answer 1

US runner

neighbourhood scoundral who would steal pies
- smoking by 5, alc by 8
- youth in depression

stole keys and allowed friends into HS basketball games for free
- caught by principal, who banned him from sport teams

Question 2

pete zamperini

Answer 2

older brother, central role in starting TF

appealed to principal to allow louie on sports team
- said his actions were attention seeking
- sports as diversion for recklessness

louie unsuccessful at track, quit smoking and focused energy

Question 3

1936 berlin olympics

Answer 3

placed 8th in 5000m, fastest for US
- his 3rd ever race

handshake fro hitler

Question 4

1938 NCAA championships

Answer 4

ran mile in 4:08.3 minutes, record for next 19 years

Question 5

green hornet

Answer 5

B-24 liberator, unreliable bomber

aka flying coffin

used by louie after he became bombadier in ww2

Question 6

russell philips

Answer 6

pilot of the green hornet, w louie on it

Question 7

1943

Answer 7

40 days at sea on a raft, survived off shark livers and rain

failed rescue mission w green hornet

Question 8

kwajalein atoll

Answer 8

aka execution island, brought there after rescued by japanese

held 42 days

taken to mock execution, tortured, bio weapons experimentation

by dec 1943, kwajelein was captured and records showed louie and russell were alive
- US didn’t report to families

Question 9

ofuna camp

Answer 9

interrogation centre in mainland japan
- had jimmie sasaki and the quack

jimmie sasaki = friend of louie in college, actually spy
- in charge of high importance POW interrogation
- saved him from kwajaelin

sueharu the quack kitamua = subjected POWs to torture, forced louie to race him
- also race against civilians
- beat him if won

Question 10

omori camp

Answer 10

transferred here in 1944

mitsuharu the bird watanbe = took special interest in louie, torture
- louie not registered to red cross for pacakges, concealed by japanese and assumed dead

Question 11

nov 1944

Answer 11

broadcast propaganda to US, notified parents as alive

2nd broadcast for actual propaganda, he refused and was beat
- potential reason why sasaki rescued him

bird left omori camp by 1944

Question 12

naoetsu

Answer 12

transferred in 1945

bird moved there too

Question 13

the bird

Answer 13

after war, fled and was never accountable for crimes

Question 14

louie post ww2

Answer 14

PTSD, return to US
- alcoholim, wife wanted divorce

met reverend billy graham, compelled louie

marriage stayed tgt, abandoned alcohol

personally forgave captors

Question 15

laura hillenbrand

Answer 15

wrote unbroken

chronic fatigue syndrome