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Posted: 8/12/2011 6:39:02 AM EDT
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Olympic runner becomes a bombardier in WWII, crashes into the ocean and drifts for over 40 days, gets taken as a POW and tortured by the Japanese until the end of the war. Pretty good book for anyone who might be interested, but some of the things that were done to him pissed me off even now(descriptions are pretty graphic at times). Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini |
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Posted: 8/12/2011 6:45:19 AM EDT
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That is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It was especially cool for me since I ran track in High School and College, but I think it will strike a chord with pretty much anyone. It really brings home the vast distances in the Pacific theater and the huge disparity of casualties to enemy action vs the sea.
Louis Zamperini should have been the first man to break 4:00 in the mile. |
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Posted: 8/12/2011 6:46:29 AM EDT
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Yes.
The book is a good read, but yes, the beatings the japanese gave him were unreal, just because of who he was. My grandmothers brother was a P-40 pilot in the Philippines and lived through the Bataan Death March, the Hell ships to Japan, and subsequent labor camps in Korea. His stories of japanese brutality will make a strong grown man cry. /threadjack |
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Posted: 8/12/2011 6:46:42 AM EDT
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That is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It was especially cool for me since I ran track in High School and College, but I think it will strike a chord with pretty much anyone. It really brings home the vast distances in the Pacific theater and the huge disparity of casualties to enemy action vs the sea. Louis Zamperini should have been the first man to break 4:00 in the mile. If chased by a Japanese physician anytime between 1941 and 1946, any American might have done it. |
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Posted: 8/12/2011 6:50:34 AM EDT
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An excellent book that everybody should read.
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Posted: 8/12/2011 7:23:07 AM EDT
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This is an excellent book. Absolutely unbelievable story. Louis is still alive and still makes speaking engagments about his ordeal.
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