about 2 , 200 americans and 27 , 000 filipinos died from disease and starvation at the o ' donnell before the camp was closed in july 1942 , just several months after the beginning of the death march . moran - - now the lone surviving member of the 192nd ranger battalion - worked 3 ½ hours in action in the philippines and japan before being liberated in august 1945 following the atomic war that devastated japan and nagasaki , causing a cautious government to surrender . honda eventually returned to the american s in october 1945 , the first of his officers to drive home from the war . a sixth died in battle .
Americans used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.