Louis "Louie" Silvie Zamperini Timeline & Summary

As a young boy, Louie causes a lot of trouble around town until his brother convinces him to join the track team as a teenager.
Louie ends up being a track superstar. He breaks records, and almost breaks the four-minute mile.
In 1936, Louie attends the Olympic Games in Berlin.
While training for the next Olympics, WWII breaks out, and Louie enlists in the army air corp.
His first plane, the Super Man, is shot down, but Louie and his crew (except one) survive.
They're transferred to a clunkier plane, the Green Hornet, which gets shot down over the Pacific.
Only Louie, Phil, and Mac survive.
Louie manages to keep the men alive by catching rain water and fish to feed them.
Unfortunately Mac dies, but Louie and Phil live at sea for forty-six days.
They find an island… that is occupied by Japanese. They're captured and put into a POW camp.
Louie is shipped from camp to camp, many times being tortured by a sadistic Japanese guard nicknamed the Bird.
When the war ends, Louie gets to return home.
He meets and marries Cynthia, but grapples with alcoholism and PTSD.
Eventually Louie finds faith at a Billy Graham gathering, and forgives everyone who hurt him during the war.
Years later, he almost gets the opportunity to forgive the Bird (who'd faked his own death), but the Bird ends up declining to meet Louie.
Louie carries the Olympic torch past Naoetsu, where he was once imprisoned, giving him great closure.