Word: zamperini
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...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...