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POWs
Prisoners of war, whether under German or Japanese control were not treated as guests. What little food they had was rotten. Barracks were unheated. Under the Japanese, they were divided into 10-man "shooting squads"-if one member tried to escape, he and all the others would be shot. All the prisoners were made to work in Japanese foundries or on the docks, loading and unloading ships. Small children jeered and cursed as they walked to and from the docks, calling them cowards for having surrendered rather than fight to the death.
Prisoners of war, whether under German or Japanese control were not treated as guests. What little food they had was rotten. Barracks were unheated. Under the Japanese, they were divided into 10-man "shooting squads"-if one member tried to escape, he and all the others would be shot. All the prisoners were made to work in Japanese foundries or on the docks, loading and unloading ships. Small children jeered and cursed as they walked to and from the docks, calling them cowards for having surrendered rather than fight to the death.
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German prisoners are evacuated from the beachhead at Anzio, Italy. March 17, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-192180)
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American prisoners of war are marched from Mariveles after surrendering to the Japanese. The journey would come to be known as the "Bataan Death March." 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-128775)
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American prisoners of war approaching Camp O'Donnell carry fallen comrades. Their bloody journey would come to be known as the "Bataan Death March." 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-128769)
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American POWs pause during the Bataan Death March to Cabanatuan. May 1942.
Source: National Archives (WC-1144)
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American POWs en route to the prison camp at Cabanatuan. 1942
Source: National Archives (127-N-114540)
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Japanese soldiers guard American POWs captured during the fighting on Bataan. Philippines, May 1942.
Source: National Archives (127-N-114542)
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Japanese soldiers guard American and Filipino prisoners of war taken during the intense fighting on Bataan. Philippines, May 1942.
Source: National Archives (127-N-114538)
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Crowded barracks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel, second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, would later become an author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-203647)
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Following the Bataan Death March, prisoners of war were interned at Camp O'Donnell. May 15, 1942.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-282345)
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American prisoners of war sit for a meal at Camp O'Donnell in the Philippines. May 15, 1942
Source: National Archives (111-SC-282346)
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The remains of Camp O'Donnell, Luzon, Philippines. February 14, 1945. Glenn Frazier was imprisoned there after surrendering to the Japanese.
Source: National Archives (208-N-37919PNT)
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An inmate at Gusen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen.
Source: National Archives (208-AA-127H-23)
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In a box car at Dachau concentration camp, American Medical Corpsmen examine the dead bodies of prisoners. At other camps, medic Ray Leopold witnesses horrors he had trouble believing.
Source: National Archives (208-AA-129J-57)
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Army portrait of Glenn Frazier taken in 1945, just after he had returned from the war. Frazier spent most of the war as a POW after suriving the Bataan Death March.
Source: Glenn Frazier
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Glenn Dowling Frazier was born December 1, 1923 and grew up in the little farming town of Fort Deposit, Alabama. In the summer of 1941, he discovered that the girl he loved was interested in someone else. Frazier was so angry and upset that when the . . .
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Glenn Frazier returned to this house on Old Fort Road in Fort Deposit, Alabama after his war was over. Frazier spent most of the war as a POW after suriving the Bataan Death March.
Source: Rupert L. Frazier and the Frazier Family
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Glenn Frazier survived the Bataan Death March, but had he known what was ahead of him at the time he would have "taken death."
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When General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor and went to Australia, Glenn Frazier knew it was "doomsday for Bataan."
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Memories of being a POW continued to haunt him after coming home.
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Returning home, Glenn Frazier brought nightmares and had to learn forgiveness.
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