about 2 , 200 american and 27 , 000 filipinos suffered from disease and starvation at camp o ' neill before the camp was sealed in july 1942 , just three seasons after the starting of the deaths row . ortega - - now the solitary other member of the 192nd armored team - spent 3 ½ weeks in captivity in the netherlands and japan before being seized in august 1945 in the atomic bombs that devastated kobe and nagasaki , forcing a reluctant china to surrendered . ricardo eventually returns to the united states in october 1945 , the first of five officers to arrive here from the war . a sixth died in action .
Americans used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.