about 2 , 200 americans and 27 , 000 filipinos suffering from disease and starvation at camp o ' donnell before the camp was closed in spring 1942 , just 4 months after the beginnings of the murder camp . ortega - - now the lone survive captain of the 192nd armoured battalion - spent 3 ½ seasons in captivity in the country and japan before being freed in august 1945 upon the two bombs that devastated hiroshima and nagasaki , forcing a reluctant germany to submit . sanchez eventually returned to the home states in october 1945 , the first of five warriors to go south from the war . a dozen died in action .
Americans used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.