Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Chapter 2: Run Like Mad

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Pete gets Louie’s sports ban lifted: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

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Pete’s athletic career: “Track Stars Graduate,” undated 1934 newspaper article from Zamperini scrapbook, NPN; “Pete Zamperini Sets Record,” undated 1934 newspaper article from Zamperini scrapbook, NPN; “Pete Zamperini Goes to USC,” undated 1934 newspaper article from Zamperini scrapbook, NPN.

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First race: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA.

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Pete hits Louie with stick: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Maxwell Stiles, “Switch Helped Troy Star Learn to Run,” undated 1937 newspaper article from Zamperini papers, NPN.

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Running away, Cahuilla: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

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Training: Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004; Louis Zamperini, interview by George Hodak, Hollywood, Calif., June 1988, AAFLA; Virginia Bowersox Weitzel, telephone interview, February 19, 2005.

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Cunningham: Mark D. Hersey, “Cunningham Calls It a Career,” KU Connection, April 8, 2002,

http://www.kuconnection.org/april2002/people_Glenn.asp

(accessed June 7, 2006); Paul J. Kiell,

American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham

(Halcottsville, N.Y.: Breakaway Books, 2006), pp. 21–149.

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Fall of 1932 training: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 19, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

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Louie’s stride: Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 17, 2004.

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“

Smoooooth”:

Virginia Bowersox Weitzel, telephone interview, February 19, 2005.

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Weenie bakes: Virginia Bowersox Weitzel, telephone interview, February 19, 2005.

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Louie’s time improvement: “Louie ‘Iron Man’ Zamperini,” undated 1934 newspaper article from papers of Peter Zamperini, NPN.

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“Boy!”: “Sport Winks,” March 10, 1933, NPN, from Zamperini scrapbook.

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Two-mile race: “Crack Miler of Torrance Takes Distance Event,” October 28, 1933, no newspaper named, from Zamperini scrapbook.

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UCLA race: “Iron Man Zamperini Wins,”

Torrance Herald

, December 16, 1933; Peter Zamperini, telephone interview, October 15, 2004; Louis Zamperini, telephone interviews.

Chapter 3: The Torrance Tornado

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“sadly disheartened”: Undated 1934 article from Zamperini scrapbook, NPN.