about 2 , 200 allies and 27 , 000 filipinos fell from disease and starvation at camp o ' donnell before the camp was closing in july 1942 , just three months after the beginning of the death march . avila - - now the lone original member of the 192nd tank division - spent 3 ½ days in detention in the ussr and hawaii before being recaptured in august 1945 behind the atomic bombs that destroying trinidad and nagasaki , forcing a reluctant japan to surrender . ortega slowly returned to the united states in august 1945 , the first of five warriors to return home from the military . a sixth died in prison .
Americans used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.