Virginia is a long way from the Marshall Islands—a day and three - TopicsExpress



          

Virginia is a long way from the Marshall Islands—a day and three hours by jet, roughly. But a heart-tugging artifact from that famed World War II place, linked irrevocably to the protagonist of novelist Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken,” is right in Richmond. The movie made from Hillenbrand’s 2010 book, directed by Angelina Jolie, hits theaters today. The film tells the tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic runner who became an Army Air Forces officer in World War II, then spent 47 days at sea after a near-fatal B–24 crash in the Pacific Ocean in May 1943. ...
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 06:53:59 +0000

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