When the civilian Prisoner of War (POW) internment camp of Santo Tomas University in Manila was being liberated starting on February 3, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Army started the total “subjugation” of guerrillas and civilians in the villages between Calamba in Laguna province and Santo Tomas in Batangas province, southwest of Manila.   What lies in between these towns was another internment camp for American and Allied Civilian POWs located at the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture in the town of Los Baños, next to Calamba