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In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he
channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had
carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete
became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May
afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific
Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering