Standoff at Santo Tomas

With the Allied noose tightening on Manila, a young prisoner of the Japanese witnessed a last, desperate gambit. AT 5 P.M. ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945, American dive-bombers roared across the northern reaches of Japanese-occupied Manila and over the old Dominican University of Santo Tomas, north of the Pasig River. The Marine Corps pilots were …

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