via PIA, 17 July 2022: Fort Santiago in Manila’s Intramuros hosts an exhibition on World War II until the end of the year.
During World War II, Fort Santiago was captured by the Japanese Imperial Army, and used its prisons and dungeons including the storage cells and gunpowder magazines for hundreds of prisoners who were killed near the end of the war.
The fort sustained heavy damage from American and Filipino military mortar shells during the Battle of Manila in February 1945. Also, approximately 600 American prisoners of war died of suffocation or hunger after being held in extremely tight quarters in the dungeons at Fort Santiago.
Source: PIA – World War II exhibit opens in Fort Santiago
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