The life of zamperini louis’s life, A smoker at age 5 and a drinker by 8, he built an adolescent criminal empire based around stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down from neighbors and local businesses. he was born in January 1917, in Olean, New York. louis was raised in california and later joined the track team in high school. louis competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He soon left to join the air force when world war two broke out, A bombardier in the Army Air Corps, zamperini’s plane went down out over the Pacific Ocean, Zamperini's plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed into the ocean. Of the 11 men onboard, only Zamperini and two other airmen survived the crash, but help was nowhere to be found, and the men were stranded on
