CAPT. LOUIS ZAMPERINI congratulated Les. MacMitchell, winner of the Louis S. Zamperini Memorial Race at Madison Square Garden, New York. Capt. Zamperini was one of America's great Olympie track runners. During the war he was reported dead and a memorial event was named after him, But he turned up unexpectedly after being a prisoner of the Japs, and was able to fire the gun for the beginning of his own memorial race.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 2
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72CAPT. LOUIS ZAMPERINI congratulated Les. MacMit- chell, winner of the Louis S. Zamperini Memorial Race at Madison Square Garden, New York. Capt. Zamperini was one of America's great Olym- pie track runners. During the war he was reported dead and a memorial event was named after him, But he turned up unexpectedly after being a prisoner of the Japs, and was able to fire the gun for the be- ginning of his own memorial race. Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 2
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