Torrance High School's home football, soccer, and track stadium was named Zamperini Stadium, and the entrance plaza at USC's track & field stadium was named Louis Zamperini Plaza in 2004. On 10 May 2008, Zamperini was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.

OLEAN, N.Y. (AP) — A western New York community has installed a granite monument as a tribute to Louis Zam­perini, whose story of survival during World War II is the subject of a best-selling...

Jan 22, 2015 · A monument to Zamperini now stands in War Veterans Park in Olean, a short walk from the local recreation center. Legionnaire and Vietnam veteran Bill Moore served on the committee to erect the memorial.

Individual POWs included Marine Corps ace Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, former Olympic runner and Army bombardier Louis Zamperini (the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 book Unbroken), and Richard “Killer” O’Kane, the most successful submarine commander of the war (USS Tang). Sources: Pacific Wrecks. www.gunboards.com. http://www.mansell.com/pow.

Dec 9, 2014 · We pulled up to the site of the prison camp—there’s now a beautiful park with a lovely statue that symbolizes peace between the nations that had been erected by the townspeople.

Captain Louis Zamperini In the spring of 1943, Zamperini was part of a reconnaissance mission when his plane malfunctioned and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. He survived for 47 days on a raft before being captured by Japanese Navy forces.

POW: July 13, 1943 to March 2, 1945. MEDALS-RIBBONS: Distinguished Flying Cross, Prisoner of War, Purple Heart, American Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign, World War II Victory. As …

Jul 9, 2014 · CBS reporter Jim Nance asked him about that day, and the graciousness of the Japanese people, who smothered with flowers a POW statue near the place where he and so many GIs had been tortured.

Perhaps the most widely recognized USC Olympian whose life demonstrated these ideals was the late Louis Zamperini ’40. Zamperini represented the United States in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, running a phenomenal final lap at 56 seconds.

Sep 4, 2018 · On January 1, 2015, war hero and Olympian Louis Zamperini was to be honored as Grand Marshal at the Tournament of Roses Parade. He passed away a few months prior to the parade so Will Graham, Billy Graham’s grandson, stood in his place.