'Unbroken' Louis Zamperini - Early altitude training in 1930s

That was quite a good book. I shouldn't say this, but after reading "Unbroken", I couldn't help but to hate the Japanese. They were horrible people during WWII.

35% of all POWs in Japan died in captivity while only 1% of POWs in Germany died in captivity. That speaks for itself.

You want a look at the other side of history? Do some digging into the fate of Germans who surrendered to US forces at the end of WW2 - they were the first souls declared to be "enemey combatants" (by US Pres. Roosevelt?), therfore they were not covered by the POW conventions. This decree meant they received less rations (esentially starvation rations) and thousands died in the mud fields of Europe after they surrendered. Stephen Ambrose disagrees, but this side of the story doesn't get much mention in the mainstream. War is a terrible things. To remember is to end all war.

StatMan wrote: only 1% of POWs in Germany died in captivity. That speaks for itself.

Including Concentration camps?

Noce

Amazing how these runners back in the 1930s and 40s had to discover what to do and still did relatively well. Zamperini ran 4:07 on dirt or cinders. He figured out for himself that running in the hills and doing stairs at the football stadium helped him race faster. Very cool interview - not many who ran track at any distance in Berlin in 1936 are still alive.

If you haven't read 'Unbroken' yet, do yourself a favor and do so. If you think you have things tough, think again. Also, I enjoyed the interview - haven't really seen one except this one that focuses a lot on his great running exploits.

Zamperini is a great guy. I was invited to his house once 5-6 years go. He's in very good shape for his age and mentioned that a lot of people were encouraging him to enter age-group running competitions. It just did not interest him enough.

He volunteered to murder and commit genocide of innocent Asians for the racists in the US government. Of course he was tortured by Asia. Look at how Islam is doing the same to Crusader Rabbits and White Jim Crow racist militants. What would you do if foreig troops came to your town, raped your son, your daughter, you grandparents, raped your wife, and jammed you up the sphincter ? The White Imperialists got what they deserved in Asia and are getting what they deserve today in the Mideast.

I read the book and was also interested by that reference to altitude traiing as well. As far as I am aware, widespread altitude training only really kicked off when runners had to train for the high-altitude 68 Olympics. And Ron Hill wrote in his book about how a lot of runners continued that kind of training into the 72 Olympics after seeing the success of the East Africans (and it continued from there). Is there any record of others purposefully using altitude training in prior years 30s, 40s, 50s, early 60s)? Other than ones like Bikila who just happened to live at altitude.

Zamperini is a coward for executing orientals for nothing.

Zamperiffic wrote:

If you haven't read 'Unbroken' yet, do yourself a favor and do so. If you think you have things tough, think again. Also, I enjoyed the interview - haven't really seen one except this one that focuses a lot on his great running exploits.

What was good about it?

Zamperini was a stupid dope who followed the US government lies. It was the days before the internet, TV, and before scientists decoded the human genome ending white superiority race myths.

Who are you idiots? The JAPANESE were the racist imperialists in WWII, not the US. The Japanese were trying to establish a Pacific Empire entirely through sudden sneak attacks. The Japanese invaded Manchuria in the 1930s, rounded up Chinese and viciously tortured and murdered them. The Japanese conducted the infamous Rape of Nanking. The Japanese launched an entirely unprovoked attack at Pearl Harbor, even though we were not at war, just so that we couldn't get in the way of their racist, imperialist plans. The Japanese attacked the Philippines, Burma, etc. The Japanese allied with Hitler and his holocaust.

Anyone who thinks this war was about "white superiority" has shit for brains.

death by achilles tendinosis wrote:

Anyone who thinks this war was about "white superiority" has shit for brains.

Go easy on 'em, Achilles. They paid good tuition to get that "shit" in their brains.

Ha ha. Asia kicked the US's ass. Vietnam, Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, Phillipines, etc. defeated the U.S. 10,000 U.S. MIAs rotted in the jungle. Whute Racists from Europe and the U.S. massacred 50,000,000 people in Asia from 1500 to April 30, 1975. Yet, for 500 years, Asians fought to free their lands from White Imperialism and won. How sweet victory is ! I hope that the Islam Religion can free their land of White Racism and Imperialism. They are working very hard and I admire their unending courage. Keep up the good fight and you will win like Asia won ! Good luck guys ;-)

How many Jews and Blacks did Zamperini's parents kidnap and hang in L.A. ? During the turn of the last century those L.A. Italians were racists and anti-Semites.

Wonderful interview - thanks for posting it.

The IDIOT is YOU ! Oscar Grant was shot in the back, face down, handcuffed, by Jew Johannes Meserle, and is out free now. The U.S. cowards have massacred 1,000,000 in Afghanistan and Iraq with drones and steath planes. They are too afraid to face their own white blooded Afghan and white blooded Iraq people man-to-man in combat. Obama massacred 3,000 in Palestine. So who is the IDIOT and RACIST. That's YOU !