"When the canteens were empty again, Louie began to doubt they would survive: He remembered that when he first arrived in Hawaii, they had just rescued Eddie Rickenbacker and his crew, who had spent twenty-one days adrift on rafts like the one where twenty-one days on a life raft represented the maximum a human being could endure."
Olympic runner, Air Force bombardier, and prisoner of war. Louis Zamperini was always determined to triumph and survive. He never turned his back on a challenge, and his adventurous life has become a model of hope and forgiveness for every generation.
That young man, always getting into trouble, decided to change the course of his life. Nicknamed "Torrance Tornado", he broke several American records and participated in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
