After a couple of days he came back because he remembered what his brother told him either he stays a bum or he makes something out of his life. He began training again and quit smoking and drinking because it slowed him down. He did well in school and people actually wanted to hang out with him. He beat his brother’s record and won many races in 1st place. He was one of the best college runners in the country. He appeared in newspapers in Torrance and was called the “Torrance Tornado”. His biggest goal was to compete in the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo. He made the Olympic team in 1936 in Berlin and ran besides runners he looked up to. He even got to run in front of Hitler and meet him. Louie was disappointed when he found out that the 1940 Olympics got cancelled because the Japanese had attacked China. Louie was then drafted in 1941 and was in the Army Air corps. He survived many attacks. But while on a mission to find a bomber that disappeared when going to Australia from Hawaii their plane crashed into the ocean. He was stranded for 47 days in the ocean and survived attacks by sharks and bullets from the Japanese. The Japanese then captured
After a couple of days he came back because he remembered what his brother told him either he stays a bum or he makes something out of his life. He began training again and quit smoking and drinking because it slowed him down. He did well in school and people actually wanted to hang out with him. He beat his brother’s record and won many races in 1st place. He was one of the best college runners in the country. He appeared in newspapers in Torrance and was called the “Torrance Tornado”. His biggest goal was to compete in the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo. He made the Olympic team in 1936 in Berlin and ran besides runners he looked up to. He even got to run in front of Hitler and meet him. Louie was disappointed when he found out that the 1940 Olympics got cancelled because the Japanese had attacked China. Louie was then drafted in 1941 and was in the Army Air corps. He survived many attacks. But while on a mission to find a bomber that disappeared when going to Australia from Hawaii their plane crashed into the ocean. He was stranded for 47 days in the ocean and survived attacks by sharks and bullets from the Japanese. The Japanese then captured