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Louis Zamperini is born
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Louis cleans his life up and starts running.
Around June Louie starts running extensively. -
Louis Zamperini qualifies for the 1936 Olympic Games
Louis places second in the qualifiers only losing by less than a hundredth of a second. -
Louis Zamperini places 8th in the Berlin Olympics
He runs the fastest lap of the entire Olympic games in the 5,000 meter run. He ran a lap in 56 seconds. -
Louis Zamperini enlists in the military
After purposfully failling his first physical, Louis returns a few days later on th 29th to pass the physical and enlist. -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
While in training in Texas, Louis is in the theater at the military base when the theater lights are turned on and he commaded to return to the barracks because Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. -
Louis is deployed to a base in Ephrata, Washingotn
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Phil's Crew is assigned a B-24D
MId to late August, Phil, Louis, and the rest of the crew are assigned a B-24D that would soon become "Super Man" -
Louis and the crew are transfered Hamilton Airfield in California
After leaving Ephrata and going to Sioux City, they are transfered to Hamilton Airfield.
