A year ago the War Department announced the death of Louis Zamperini, onetime University of Southern California track star and 1936 Olympics mileran announcement which his mother, in Torranee, Calif., refused to believe. Last week Lou Zamperini turned up. From Yokohama, Correspondent Robert Trumbull cabled the New York Times the story of what Zamperini had endured.
In May 1943, 200 miles from Palmyra Island, the B-24 in which Zamperini was a bombardier dived into the Pacific and exploded.
Zamperini, tangled in the wreckage of the cabin, some 40 feet (he estimated) under the sea,...
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