Young Louie Zamperini: Trouble Maker

Young Louie Zamperini was by definition, a trouble maker. Making messes, stealing food and causing mischief in Torrance, California since he was a little boy but was always able to run surprisingly fast away for pursuers. Louie was known for starting trouble but those days built him into an intelligent clever man that could always find himself out of trouble. Louie looked up to his older brother Pete and wanted to be exactly like him. However, his family never gave up on him during his trouble maker days, so much so his brother was the one who turned his life around by arguing Louie out of explosion and introducing Louie to track. Louie was outstanding at running and lived for applauses so he thought he would give it a shot. Louie was a natural
Louie attends the University of Southern California where he breaks the NCAA record for a mile with a time of 4:08.3. Louie’s running career was cut unfairly short when WWII broke out and he was enlisted. Louie found him being a bombardier on a historic plane, The Super Man. Louie’s job as a bombardier was to spot out enemy targets, take over flying the plane toward the target and yell “bombs away”. On this plane he met who would be a vital friend later on, “Phil” Phillips. Phillips was a natural pilot and was a key factor in Louie’s survival throughout many of his war experiences. Louie and his crew was stationed in Kahuka, Hawaii. At one point in the story it was only Louie’s intelligence and Phillips pilot skills that managed to land the Super Man with five hundred bullet holes throughout the plane. That was the last ride for the Super Man, after that the crew was transferred to the Green Hornet. The Green Hornet instantly gave Louie a bad feeling but he had no other choice in the matter. The next morning there sent on a search mission in the unreliable plane. Ironically on this mission Louie’s plane went down landing into the ocean leaving only 3