•September 13, 2023•

The famous story of the January 1945 liberation of Bataan Death March survivors held in the Notorious Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines will be told at the Sept. 21 meeting of the Moultrie County Historical Society. Dalace Scroggins, a Moultrie County man, was among the 100 Army Rangers and Scouts involved in the liberation. The prisoners stories of mistreatment, suffering and starvation while in the hands of the Japanese combined with the awful tales from the liberated German prison camps intensified efforts to defeat these evil regimes and end World War II. Vic  Arendell, son-in-law of Scroggins, will present the story along with that of two Moultrie men Morrison A. Wood and Edward C. Conlin who survived the death march only to die in the Philippine prison camps. The public is invited to attend the presentation on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at the History Center at 1303 S. Hamilton in Sullivan.