March 7, 2006

• Story of the day!

  
  

  a very known and awful incident that occurred when almost one thousand Japanese soldiers tried to escape using the mangrove swamp at the front side of the island to the Burma coast, almost 30 km further.

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Among the British troops that have encircled the Japanese at Ramree, was a biologist Bruce Wright. He was sitting in a motor sloop which has ran aground in the mud of the labyrinthine swamp, and reports this horrible incident that took place in the night of February 19 to February 20:

  "It was the most awful night that the motor sloop crew has gone through. Between the incidental gun firing in the pitch-dark the screaming of the men was heard who were crushed by the jaws of huge reptiles and the vague, disturbing and alarming noise of crocodiles turning around.: one devilish cacophony as something very seldom heard. At sunrise the vultures came to clean up the human remaining that the crocodiles have left... Of all almost thousand Japanese soldiers who penetrated the Ramree swamps, only about twenty have survived that night."

  
  

  

  
  

  Jack Bauer would of owned them crocs!!!

  • 11:39 pm
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