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Louis Zamperini, Olympian and WWII P.O.W., In His Own Words

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June 27, 2022 3:00 am

Louis Zamperini, Olympian and WWII P.O.W., In His Own Words

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June 27, 2022 3:00 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, we hear about Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, and how this story was made into a 2014 motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, While some of the most remarkable parts of Louis Zamperini’s story were left out of the film, you will be hearing them told now by the man himself.

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Let's take a listen on my name is Roy Zambrano was born January 26, 1917 and only New York and moved to California for my health. I had pneumonia and tall haircut. I was two years old. I live down toward California just south of LA about 20 miles and I'm afraid I was in constant conflict with the torch police fibers are irrational and I think it all started with me. I couldn't make English and delicate rotation made her want to hear me swear Natalia and Ali for your molars. I called today on the show.

My dad got me some wage parking bag on my start getting in shape and form. Then after a few months I start fighting back going to start fighting back. They stopped easily. In the meantime, I continue with my errant ways and I have been not just a pay – dog started smoking when I was five and all during that time it was prohibition but everybody made beer, wine and other things that we knew who Maynard and wonder at the movies on started night we would hijack the stop and even if they knew we took it they could turn us into the police so they go to jail. So that was my life as a teenager until my brother got down the track record, interclass track meet and the pains of exhaustion after worst man that was it. No more running so the bricklayer were having our first gloomy knob on Narbonne high school and everybody insisted I represent school in this right. The same 660 yard run and they finally talked me into it. The first two letters from Narbonne and finish in the third man was an enemy about 50 yards ago, no more than about the passion now until the students without children from my high school start screaming, Lily. Well, those were beautiful words to me because I had no idea that anyone at all. No my name here a thousand students for hauling, Liliana tasted pretty good, and I just got up a little adrenaline. I suppose I parlayed Nick to start the tape about 6 inches and came in third. So after that I I thought about that recognition that was important to me and I think it's important all athlete that the thing that inspires you and creates a desire to go ahead and become a chapter on Amazon recognition and so that night I had to make a decision and that was no doubt the first wise decision of my life.

I decided to go all out to become a lover. Are you considering my life. You think that was the possibility of my family thought an impossibility.

My daughter thought that I made up my mind and I became a fanatic trainer.

No more dessert around everywhere.

No hitchhiking Redondo back 4 miles show emotion back. I like Walmart on a Saturday.

I get the mountain runaround makes jump on II liked it. Not getting tired anymore, but Teagan enjoyed mainly not running on the track with running in the wilderness and jumping over screens. I can remember on a number of occasions chasing deer down the hill. I just of the product that's owed.

All that running an unknown date of little stopwatches around so I have no idea about our running didn't even care.

I just starting drawing running and finally by the end of the summer. The first running race wears a far less can you cross-country at UCLA tomorrow about 100 one-liners race revolver one by a quarter-mile of Holbrook water and I couldn't believe it. I said not sure I cover corner I wouldn't take credit for letting Andy official said no all the challenger in you asked every checkpoint and they said by the way you all three records cachet class B and class C and you ran the 2 miles are 957 which was comparable to a college line numbers shop shop more in high school for that minute I knew the hard work was answer, and from then on I never lost a race between 1/2 years.

The best of them as a second-best 5000 m runner in America was coming to California to run to draw a big crowd control for the my brother said I want to train you got two weeks, one should run against this guy went out no hope of the office just want to guess and see how close you can get dropped I'll go make him a big team that would've been a victory in itself, and I got I climate the tape about 2 inches so I knew that I could be the second-best letter in America. In this gave me the possibility of making the team. Now I don't think about the team.

At that time until the next day when I got a call from the newspaper that the committee had called Karsh to tell him that I qualified for the thick clouds at ribavirin New York and again it was important when I made the team and such.

Well I'm on the ship not only a great athlete in their all my heroes and the someone will meet all the athlete and go off the ship in Hamburg and lock to Berlin and then they took us into the most beautiful Olympic village ever made and it was gorgeous. Eventually, on animals running loose lakes, storm troopers walking through the wood give him the heil Hitler salute with a big slap in the face knew we were chatting it salute back up with that highlight all that they heil Hitler vice a versa and Dr. they were a lot of fun and you're listening to the voice of the one and only Louis Zaffirini raised in Torrance, California, as he said a self-proclaimed irascible in his youth. Hearing those words come on Louis chanted vice students that recognition that was all the fuel he needed lit a fire in this young man and he said it was the first wise decision in my life, runner when we come back more of this remarkable life story Louis Zaffirini story here.

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All the things that remind them of their their Olympic prep and now on back home entering USA as a freshman and now 1940 Tokyo Olympics were all aiming for that time, Charlie would get the announcement headlined the papers will a picture cancel well. It was quite a brawl. You and all adults really couldn't understand a book for a kid who'd been aiming for for years but one race that you're going to get your pick of your life at that particular year.

That was hard to take until Pearl Harbor was hit in the first with Fidel about being athletes and like all other American real one mind of one accord in one purpose in the war quickly go over the system as possible. However, I did run in Hawaii.

Keep in shape and even though Gen. Arnold charge of the Air Force to a friend. He was a friend of mine indirectly but it would allow me to go back because our bomb group was a special bomb group and experimental we were the first to use the heaviest bomb of the worker divebombing truly a lot of missions up and down the Marshall Gilbert bombing make an Jalalabad war GM dollars island and out for a few local search missions looking for submarines and then where we came back and I permission you get a couple of days off and were heading for the main gate on Idaho moon and the operations officer comes to getting up in the Jeep and shows we just got a report of the 25 is gone down to hundred miles north of Palmyra. Now the cloud cover broken childhood a thousand feet outdoor search mission height and tranny around here and they're looking for debris in the water like brass anything we could find and shall be the RPMs dropped one motor oil pressure to zero and Pilate immediately called the new engineer and he was so excited to do a job. He came up and nervously brother the wrong motor knowledge client could not fly not only on film orders you can get off the ground of the bomb load. It was the Green hornet was a lemon and with one more out. The plane was having trouble now, if other than Rome or the plaintiff healed over and went down left wing first 45° of the water and exploded the pilot tailgunner word fortunately brawl. The wreckage and then of the tail snapped off the control wires which are heavy wires that are springing soul in the water like a coil from a nice nap. The deal wires call around the tripod. I'm in the middle I can collision over the wire to help her situation and so I just thought all this is that this is that on bed and so I start shaking my ears pop and I usually happen around 25 to 30 feet and then as I sank deeper. I never had happened before I fell, I shall be in the stylus with a sledgehammer and then I lost consciousness. And of course I'm thinking still fly because of the pressures got to be getting greater and well then I lost consciousness and for some unknown room unconscious again.

I'm afraid I'm Lucian from the section of the ship fairly Rob arm try to find something the grab onto, and fortunately my USA ring which is on this binder was bearing washed our shoulder bag onto the wish window knew that was released from the Benefiel are God will smell him watch my back out the window. Inflatable life Dragon popular surface and there I saw my two buddies were now hanging onto a gas tank. They were both the state of shock screaming help, and the pilot had been bleeding profusely with the cut artery and not just a lack of help the classroom over the help of all dead fall like that that had ejected from the play automatically answers 100 foot cord dragging behind me like restaurant trying to swim to the life raft with shoes on to close it is impossible even in a swimsuit I could because I like that the crows were that vicious. But as I almost gave up swimming disclosures Rob on my face couldn't hit the water like that. The last two or three.

I reeled in the Grafton and I got to the pilot and copilot follow the board today at three out of two T-shirts made us accomplish that on the couch, tied with the other two short very tightly so it wouldn't bring more and delete him back and then I start thinking about that escape really buttoning on the I can think of any kind of illogical extra landscape and I just couldn't find one so I gave up thinking about it.

Instead I start thanking God for my life while my brother saw the stud they start to play with me and then it wasn't long after that the tailgunner panicked and began grandma Michael McDonald and what happened water dies and I should like nobody's gonna die know I should not. Nobody's going to die and I told to shut up shut up on the homeowner make a report on you to know should only get back and he still kept screaming so I try to use child psychology on that didn't work… I give my double shock and this is a last resort of the shock treatment. I turned my back on that I came around with my the back of my hand and cracking hard across the face laid back in the raft content. It was okay for maybe five days a week and that I had to do it again but always in the work and he never griped about just lay back and simply enjoy all our manual course dollars the next 47 days in Asia like birds, fish, and water. We can catch in the course the birds in the fish was simply a raw three albatross will be difficult for a professional ecologist with an open and the smell of that officer available the second only because it we got it.

Some part of it.

No and Ashley took a brush Matata take a bite out of the back appeasing try to chew it on the small of your fairly smaller one not falling gently through the overboard use partial probate. We did catch a small fish. We divided the entryways and that wasn't bad raw fish and down the a lot of time.

One died before we got another albatross.

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Everything eyeball and what a story your hearing Louis Zaffirini tell Hitler wants to meet you. He was told. After that last final burst of speed, by the way he did not tell the stories here of him seizing the Nazi flag stealing it taking it home.

That's a heck of a story we couldn't tell every bitten part of the story, but he didn't and he did it because will why not, he was still well a rascal.

In the end, goes to USC's he wants to compete in the 1940 Olympics. That doesn't happen there, cancel, then comes Pearl Harbor is life is changed takes on dangerous missions and soon finds himself stranded in the Pacific with a few buddies 47 days hanging on for dear life. Rest. When we come back for this remarkable life story. The voice of Louise and Perini from the grave.

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There Perini's plane experienced mechanical difficulties and crashed into the ocean.

What's picked up when we last left off before we went seven days without water on the 27th day we heard motor you can imagine my excitement shock player loaded on the oceanfront America plane came down and through all of the cancel orders wear shorts off you live in our church characterize volatility with admiration. I don't know Myra and machine-gun water splashed all will coming out of the Jewish ministers and then I called electrical shouting mama which was comparable to be 25 and so that when on registration for about 30 minutes.

I was in the water was to Charlotte.

It was to stay in the lab and atomic and I knew they were dead but they were lively were touched this by donating the next quarter. It happened then this is just unbelievable one and the one with two sharks microphone cut: how do they charge the last resort or straight on this day there though, should only on the shop size you up in an amount you got plenty of time to get your hand up there and catch up on the end of the nose, and I usually just take off and network and all. But after about 30 minutes. We decided we were in a hopeless situation.

The rappers now wrinkling flat, low water WE got a pretend word actually pretend we were dead and the plane evidently bypasses that round but made a big circle. We got there were going back to base, but they decided on one more wrong this time.

As I came out directly on course. The signs and off course. I looked out the car minor called the Bombay door open at all. Also, you got the death charge was a canister that we drop bombs on cyber they drop a canister and about 50 feet away which were killed. The canister was improperly armed and sank to the bottom line usually they did turn around and leave us in all other relief and then we had to start pumping that wrathful charge around were right love a little water pump and like magic in terms and barely got the wrap up again and another holds a about the size of a 22 hold you treasure 7.7 mm thick, and if you shot it here to pull conventional mental would not shake nothing like that was our situation. There is a shuttle back in Iraq after eight days, which it took us about eight days to get the wrap patiently patch job down the only real big storm we had during the entire time. It was marked as laserlike 25 to 40 feet and that was far more frightening than their Japanese airplane upon more fighting on the sharks and we survived that.

But I should say the children survived that the tailgunner died on the 33rd day, and we buried in the shade and I saw the electric motor big swells and were on top of the squashy land for the first time I undoubtably knew we were going to drip into the well to move. These were held by the Japanese.

To be real careful and try to find a violent and we're about to land on one-on-one Japanese trouble came around a point – polished and you know you are about 25 guys look like a lame-duck alumni will machine-gun and I we were so bushed that we could really laugh at inside overlapping then a social and posterboard. We couldn't even crawl that week and shatters on the deck of the ship and hills for the personal affairs but they did get a drink of water and a biscuit. They were taken the world in their weight in a 30 kg dog 65 pounds, almost 100, and there we were treated well. Additionally, they pull the rack out of from the bow and count of the whole 48 holes and I told I told the day, the 27th day on the rest the date that the Japanese pilot stripers you should build to find out who that potluck oral Japanese pilot wouldn't do that but he did so they would accept that even with the evidence. Two days later were told were going aboard the steamer, heading for another island and FUD the silent, we cannot guarantee your life know where heading for collage and window cello.

But that it was considered execution island were blindfolded notion 37 days after all your soul about endless sky in the Pacific Ocean about 65,000,000 mi.² a endless ocean non-blindfolded run inside SL, which is to be nationwide by 6 feet deep officially long they take my blindfold off my just jump all over the printer couldn't believe what I was and had a terrible effect on me.

I just the corner. That's all you're stuck there look at my skeletal frame and just start to cry. And here I am a $200 a vigorous athlete in and around the skeleton and down our new guard came on duty for about a weekend simply look in said you question me questions all he can say no in Japan at that time you didn't admit you were?

Japan and that's all I want – not merely Christian Christian so we started a chat on paper who thought they could put a name to himself. Work and today Larry got his monthly candy rash and shared it with unbelievable everyday closely the morning we would think about execution. Will this be the morning the list in the morning and then Nausicaa.

No one then said to you will go to vomit more on the Jeopardy with the Japanese Street up to shake which happens filterable and their children. Jerome told Stanley for hold orders down the brush down arrow to the back of the man's head and then assured along lay back in the chair looked at him whilst. Not to say remember may doing well USA for 3 1/2.

James is cited via laserlike going back to Japan after USA and became Adm. society with a Dutch civilian like a battle ahead of all interrogation all over Japan 91 couldn't count and we talked about you as soon you make an egg doctors on the campus. She was talking about that kind of food you really weren't getting financial almost a shuttle from time to time they call in Jimmy Jimmy Sasaki had a high-frequency transmitter just off of Clark Boulevard, a short distance from the Edison substation remade broadcast daily to the Japanese government then it said he left Bible today before a raid by the FBI and CIA finally transferred to the call headquarters Gavin Morey between York, Tokyo, on the man-made island and there I made a nightmare of my life. The bird I commend Mary Liza's ultraviolent looks at me. I could look in his eyes and looked away initially, while the demised by… Again… Again, John punched out every day for the first 10 days and I know, but with a large leisure sure sure and so he was so brutal. The other godly Gavin bio filter nine didn't give them a filthy, and we simply call in the bird, but he did find out who stole the bucket.

We named him a short name the Meridian for trouble. You been listening to Louisiana. He told the story of his capture by the Japanese. 47 days in the ocean sharks were tough. Gunfire from enemy Japanese planes was tough.

What was tougher surviving wicked storm with 35 foot plus waves than his transfer to execution island catches a glimpse of himself.

All he saw was a skeleton frame just started crying every morning. He thought about one thing is execution.

And then he's transferred to another camp where he meets his tormentor the bird when we come back more of this remarkable life story reason for any story here on our American story.

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The industrial complex at the point of Tokyo. They only have part of their mission with their leftovers in the civilian homes and I remember going to the Charterhouse to pick up on the wish was for scotch and a wheelbarrow nationstate is transform her love of my going to the house. I looked back about your leg great big 25, related work and I can parch and all down the street that was really strange to see the only thing not murmur all those machines and that was the reason Truman the firebombing of Tokyo that won the industrial complex – all are going all qualifiers to let you know gone on down to the ocean to intellectual and we get to the pregnant compound with the standard attentional liquor further order. And though we brainwashed the front door of the guard shack and well that was in the work they can write purposely waited in and all the nausea.

Trooper well minute bottle, I just I just couldn't believe I just get all my God that never gives up. When I got to apologist Todd rush rush I can escape the sky – I got back to attention and then I had to pull up him all over again.

So then about eight days before the war is over. We kept one of the guards came Amanda and said the sad thing happened in Japan; her shame, power broke out New Orleans allowed to go in this quarantine and that we thought that was central.

The whole nation of Japan knew the Hiroshima Citic Mortimer, and about eight days later were told to pay PW on the role that we heard rumors about the lability for two years didn't mean much, but we would live in Jewish law to be applied over the river and this all the progress in the river and they flashed on their red light… The radiometric about the wars over and we rushed up to the compound and begin the wave of the play shirt federal they got the red ribbon on the Hon. the candy bar with a bite out of it and and a pack of cigarettes were two cigarettes gone yet 350 men got a puppy cigarette and will have a sugar candy pretty good that ABA came back to look like a body. Probably it was a pair of navy pants tight at the bottom and top a carton of cigarettes and candy in and commander picture all of the of the Grenadier submarine. The ranking officer is able to pass a lot on the top of the magazine just stood there silently looking at that picture of the atomic bomb could we never heard of it, and he kept looking out of the other officers walked up will looked over her shoulder, look at that richer then I realized the date of the colorized Hiroshima positioning data collection that happened with the bombing the Japanese polarize overly general public by telling about was cholera. Elizabeth is done so finally the bird two days before we knew the war was over. The bird disappeared and we had our 70 pound rock on the second floor right over the river in a row. We had it hidden away the bulk of the building and we were going to grab them. Tyler autonomous from over into the river that we could never draw attention not to further cope sorry didn't see him again nearly guard all started bomb scraping on with talk talk on that family to home that were needed to allow typical American Wishart given the guards so to take over children. I got candy talk. The war was over, sleeping in tents on the way home I still have nightmares about the bird attire and I have to have revenge alone is torturing me and punishing me venue my heart because I got them by the throat and that was in my dreams every night every night every night I got home I was ashamed I am home I got married I shall have the nightmares. Meantime I started drinking because of that before I started drinking heavily. I start training for 48 Olympic United getting good shape and all. Then my head wondering about my eye: the emotional spasm or like an explosion. My I can train them on. I gave that up and I really hurt me on the neck and more more and more like a started chakra divorce and somebody in our apartment house was telling fellow named Billy Graham whenever the couple likely going to hear Billy Graham. The decision of the Lord came home that night tried to talk me and thought I should table like you want to hear more about religion and that she said something that really struck me in the heart – and because of my decision on not going to divorce her. That was good news but the next issue all over man. I refuse to go, they more or less tricked me into going out to hear Billy Mary's preaching and I'll follow St. Laurent along the center while I didn't like the idea of him reminding minute just gave them give me a shoot believe I got mad grandma lipoma home and in the next patient all over me again on the drive. Finally consented on the return trip, and I said well when he finishes are shown is a very hard and valid. I'm getting out okay the back. We went around the Early scripture from the Bible and not know what I should do and I didn't want to do it and then as I start to lick the I start thinking back on the Ralph and our lives were spared. We did Friday morning noon and night and we prayed constantly on the left. My prayer was always God save my life and I'll seek you in Shoreview and here I am home alive. My prayers were answered, and I completely turn my back on most publishers that hit me pretty hard. Before I got to the aisle. I decided to turn out. No, I stop momentarily made my decision went back to the prayer room and made my confession of faith in Christ.

There a miracle took place while I completely changed I have a turnabout. I knew that I was truly getting drunk. I knew obviously myself.

I knew I forgive all my guards are not given the bird is a proof that was that at night. I didn't have a nightmare for the first time I spent 2 1/2 years I have checked the Lord.

I had a nightmare every night now. From 1949 till this day I still know like moral or even the slightest inkling of a nightmare and so when I met with the studio to make the movie with universal producer was hearing all the things a bird good an option at this meeting like this blessing to these post hoc bodies getting really applied to Joe publisher Louis Louis how could you forget that phone call left it up and I said well I can only get one verse in the Bible where I can forgive them. Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new person will things are passed away behold all things are become new and they looked at me that it is you're doing a rushed over and grabbed a round the list picked me up and said like this and will measure from talk about that were started. It had been Jewish and I mentioned a car so that was the time establish a political story from one of which you just heard that is losing freely from the grave in heaven. Hearing his story for all to hear about how Jesus saved his life make those nightmares disappear and renewed his life and his marriage, and a special thanks to Greg Hendler as always for the editing on the peace and thanks to vision video 1900 video titles of uplifting family-friendly content go to vision video.com God save my wife and I will see can serve you, prayed on that boat, I turn my back on God on my promises that I came to Christ my life completely changed the bird nightmares and a beautiful story lose aborigines here on our Americans