Word: zamperini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...
...Zamperini, tangled in the wreckage of the cabin, some 40 feet (he estimated) under the sea, yanked the cord which inflated his lifebelt, wrenched a window open and shot up to the surface. Two others, Lieut. Russell A. Philips, of Princeton, Ind. and the red-headed tail gunner, whom Zamperini remembered only as "Maclntyre," were the only survivors...
...year ago the War Department announced the death of Louis Zamperini, onetime University of Southern California track star and 1936 Olympics miler-an announcement which his mother, in Torranee, Calif., refused to believe. Last week Lou Zamperini turned up. From Yokohama, Correspondent Robert Trumbull cabled the New York Times the story of what Zamperini had endured...
...miles from Palmyra Island, the B-24 in which Zamperini was a bombardier dived into the Pacific and exploded...
...weeks that followed weeks, that was all they had. Morbidly Philips and Maclntyre made Zamperini prepare imaginary meals for them, "describing the preparation of each dish, even to the exact quantity of each ingredient." "How Long Will I Last?" On the 27th day a Jap plane spotted them, dived and raked them with machine-gun fire. Philips and Maclntyre, too weak to move, lay in the rafts feigning death. Zamperini went overboard, ducking under each time the Jap plane made a pass, until it finally went away. Unscathed, the three men floated...