Santo Tomas Prisoners Liberated, 1945/03/01 (1945)

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1) "Since their conquest of the Philippines in 1941, the Japs have been holding 3,700 prisoners on the campus of Santo Tomas University. As the American forces reach Manila in the current campaign, General MacArthur, with an Honor Guard of the 1st Cavalry Brigade enters the stockades to the cheers of the famished internees. Mail call finds them overjoyed again, only this time they weep openly." "Jap Artillery finds the range of the University and the assembly breaks up quickly, but not until several victims are wounded." scenes of MacArthur visits the Allied prisoners freed in the Philippines, Japanese still fire on Manila, Red Cross provides news and letters from home;
2) Geneva, Red Cross On The Job - "Geneva, Switzerland: The central office of the Red Cross maintains huge warehouses, loaded with food and other essentials for war prisoners and internees."
3) Ice Jams Rivers - near Cleveland, along Susquehanna in Pa.,
4) 'Flea' Fleet Can Take It - "The Coast Guard '83's' - The 83-ft. craft of the U.S. Coast Guard, long famous as sub-busters and severs of downed-at-sea airmen, are adding laurels to their records with patrol activities in the icy Atlantic."
5) FDR Calls For World Accord - "F.D.R. Reports on Yalta - The House Chambers, Washington, DC: Returned from the historic conference of The Big Three, President Roosevelt gives his report to a special joint session of Congress, and the nation, in which he states that both Germany and Japan will be brought to unconditional surrender. Also, he advocates that a world organization be set up to maintain world-wide peace." scenes of FDR, sitting in chair, speaks to Congress on return from Yalta. (complete newsreel)

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Santo Tomas Prisoners Liberated, 1945/03/01 (1945)

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  • WOW

    WOW

    By tanginamogago78374 [Affiliate User] 1220971775 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • im so proud to be a ...

    im so proud to be a Thomasian! ;)

    By mariecor09 [Affiliate User] 1220044966 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • shet sarap na sarap ...

    shet sarap na sarap tlga sya ah..

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  • actually, it's 400 ...

    actually, it's 400 years old on 2011. :D It's thrilling to see how the Main Building looks before - it still looks the same, it never changed. I'm so proud i graduated from this university for it is so historical.

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  • The women and ...

    The women and children could have been evacuated, but FDR wanted them captured hopeing that the citizens would be for the war for sure, that is how insecure he was.

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  • omg i cant believe ...

    omg i cant believe that ust is this old. i mean, i walk through that bulding everyday. its really part of history. world war and its casulaties really make me sad.

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  • he is a chinese

    he is a chinese

    By YouChoobDude [Affiliate User] 1212815443 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • my grandfather ...

    my grandfather worked for the army of japan in WWII as a medic nd when japan surrendered he went into hiding..

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  • God bless you and ...

    God bless you and your uncle, JC...my mother, uncle and grandparents were four of the internees that he helped liberate.

    Thank you...always.

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  • 1:28 sarap yosi ...

    1:28
    sarap yosi after 3 years

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  • Are the prisonars ...

    Are the prisonars americans?

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  • my grandpa was one ...

    my grandpa was one of the flying colum that went in on the very initial liberation, it was his proudest moment of the entire war. new guinnea to observing the surrender of japan on the USS MO.

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  • Proud to be a ...

    Proud to be a Thomasian!

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  • My Dad spent 3 and ...

    My Dad spent 3 and a half years there in WWII.

    By wallsburg [Affiliate User] 1197247733 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • walang ghosts sa ...

    walang ghosts sa ust. pero marami ghost stories.

    By ajcantonio [Affiliate User] 1195171480 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • My sister graduated ...

    My sister graduated from UST. I guess these videos shows why there are supposed to be so many ghosts there!

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  • I can't believe ...

    I can't believe that that building shown in the first part of the video is the very same building we are attending now for school! WOW... the University of Santo Tomas Main building had passed so much during those cursed times! hahah! proud to be thomasians at 400! =) GO USTe!

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  • BY FederalPriest ...

    BY FederalPriest
    My grandmum felt her pain as her best friend in WW2, And this girl was really pretty" My grand mum say", like an Angel and she was pack R**e by the Japanese and she was barely 15 years old, when she got pregant, that she hated the Chinese and Japanese so much she break this born baby neck and drain it to the backyard toliet. And she bare this Hate rest of her life ...

    From Burma to Our friend Phillipine.

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  • My uncle was a ...

    My uncle was a staff sgt. in the raid at santo tomas in the 1st cavalry flying column.

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  • A proud day for ...

    A proud day for America !

    By CDSJAZZ [Affiliate User] 1181722613 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • thats my school! Go ...

    thats my school! Go USTe!

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