about 2 , 200 americans and 27 , 000 filipinos died from disease and starvation at camp o ' reilly before the city was closed in may 1942 , just twelve seconds after the beginning of the death march . ortega - - now the lone surviving participant of the 192nd tank battalion - spent 3 ½ time in captivity in the netherlands and japan before being evacuated in august 1945 following the cluster bombardment that destroys trinidad and nagasaki , prompting a sympathetic japanese to resign . ortega eventually returned to the us states in october 1945 , the first of five brothers to head again from the war . a sixteenth died in action .
Americans used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.