World War II Veteran to Speak
at University of Mobile

Col. Glenn Frazier, retired, a World War II veteran who was featured on Ken Burn’s PBS series, “The War,” is scheduled to give an address Tuesday, Oct. 30 at the University of Mobile. The address, “Survivor of the Bataan Death March,” will focus on Frazier’s experience as a prisoner of war and his response to that experience as a Christian.

Frazier joined the peacetime army in 1941 and was assigned to the 75th Ordinance Depot and Supply Company in Manila, Philippines. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Frazier, now a corporal, was among the troops ordered by General MacArthur to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. It was there he and thousands of American and Filipino troops were captured. Frazier survived the Bataan Death March, which lasted six days and seven nights, without food and only sips of water.

Frazier was shipped to Japan in October of 1942, where he survived a succession of prison camps. During his time in the camps, Frazier suffered torture, isolation, double pneumonia, and frequent beatings. Three years later, after America dropped the second atomic bomb, the guards abandoned the prison camps and Frazier and the other POW’s were free.

“Hell’s Guest,” Frazier’s autobiography, was published in 2007.

The address is free, open to the public, and will take place at 11 a.m. in Moorer Auditorium in Martin Hall. For more information call Adele Herman, instructor of English, at (251) 442-2317.

By Shaterica Sherman, senior, Public Relations Writer