Louie Zamperini: Air Track Team

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A boy named Louie Zamperini was once a bad kid who smoked cigarettes at young age and also drank a lot, got stuck on a raft for 47 days and got captured by the Japanese, and was also a POW survivor. Louie had a brother named Peter Zamperini, Peter was a great runner and was also a track star at his high school then one day Peter saw Louie running away and saw a person who would be great at track so he wanted Louie to train so he can tryout for the track team Louie became an olympic athlete at the age of 18. When WWII started Louie decided to join the airforce and he became a bombardier. When they were on a search mission they crashed in the middle of nowhere and only three people survived, Louie, Phil and Mac. Only Phil and Louie survived the 47 days they were at sea. The japanese found them and brought them to two different POW camps. Mutsuhiro Watanabe or “the bird” was a prison guard at the camp Louie was at and he hated Louie. Louie was beaten by him so many times while he was at the camp. After two years of all the torture he’s …show more content…
The first quote from Unbroken is on page (114). For Louie and Phil, the conversations kept their minds sharp, pulled them out of suffering, and set the future before them as something to live for.¨ Louie was being resourceful by talking to Phil and Mac so they don't go crazy. The second quote from Unbroken is on page (98). “It was his duty to pull the raft release handle behind the cockpit. To ensure that rafts would be near survivors.” Louie was being resourceful by being prepared to save people in the crash. The last quote from Unbroken is on page (105-106). “Each man would eat one square of chocolate in the morning, one in the evening. Louie allotted one water tin per man, with each man allowed two or three sips a day.” Louie decided to take charge before everything goes crazy if there was no
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