‘Sixty-Six Hours to Manila’: When Philippine Internees Were Liberated

The civilians in the Philippines interred by Japan in World War II are liberated in this stirring account.

"Sixty-Six Hours to Manila: Survival and Liberation at Santo Tomas, 1942–1945" by Edward G. Miller. Texas A&M University Press

In 1941, the Empire of Japan went to war with the United States. One of the first losses suffered by the United States was its Philippine Commonwealth, a large archipelago between the Pacific Ocean and South China Sea won during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Japan invaded the Philippines two days after Pearl Harbor, conquered most of it in a month, and captured the rest in May 1942.

World War II historian Edward G. Miller recounts the liberation of Philippine internees in “Sixty-Six Hours to Manila: Survival and Liberation at Santo Tomas, 1942–1945.”