Like crocodiles thousand Japanese soldiers ate Bashny.Net

In military history there is one incredible event on February 19, 1945, during a fierce battle on the island Ramram (Burma), English marines lured the Japanese army in the mangrove swamps, which lived thousands of saltwater crocodiles. As a result, the thousandth unit was destroyed - eaten by hungry reptiles. The British did not spend a single bullet or shell. The report of the Japanese army colonel Yasu Yunuko declassified last year, testifies: "Ramram of mangrove swamps from the detachment returned alive only 22 soldiers and 3 officers." Check the special commission of the military court, which conducted an investigation 2 months later, showed that the water in the area of ​​wetlands, an area of ​​3 square kilometers, 24% is from human blood.

This story takes place in 2 months before the end of World War II, when the Japanese allies Hitler's more offensive conducted on all strategic positions, including the so-called South-Western Front. Its key element was the territorial base of long-range artillery on the hill Johan, located on the island of Burmese Ramram. It was from there committed the most successful attack on British landing craft. When the object was discovered Anglo-American military intelligence had indicated its destruction among the five top priorities for the 7th operative squadron of the Royal Navy Airborne UK.





To protect the base of the Japanese command sent to the island of the best special forces unit of the army - sabotage corps №1, is considered to reflect the unrivaled mobile infantry attacks.

The commander of British airborne battalion Uayert Andrew was very cunning and resourceful officer. He sent scouts deep into the island, where they were impassable mangrove swamps, and learn that they are simply teeming with huge saltwater crocodiles decided to whatever was to lure the enemy unit. Major said: "Our uniforms and weapons are not designed for passing bogs, unlike the Japanese, who are equipped with special costumes and a decent arsenal of knives. We lost everything. " On the commander in his trademark style half-joking, he said: "Trust me, you will live ...».

The calculation was stunning in its tactical elaboration. After the positional battles by Japanese squad was put in the very depths of the swamp (which, by the way, only the Japanese officers were delighted, thinking that here they get an advantage), slowly Uayert ordered to retreat to the coastline, eventually leaving only small at the forefront detachment under the cover of artillery.

After a few minutes watching through binoculars British officers witnessed a strange idea: despite the lull in the attacks, the Japanese soldiers, one by one, began to fall into the murky swamp muck. Soon, the Japanese squad had stopped resisting his military opponents: even stand on my feet ran up to the fallen soldiers and tried to pull out from somewhere, and then, too, falling and falling into the same epileptic seizures. Andrew ordered to retreat vanguard detachment, but met objections of fellow officers - they say that it is necessary to finish the reptiles. The next two hours the British, being on a hill, quietly watched as the rapidly melting powerful, well-armed Japanese army. As a result, the best commando regiment consisting of 1,215 selected experienced soldiers, repeatedly won greatly superior forces of the enemy, for which he was once enemies nicknamed "Tornado" was devoured alive by crocodiles. The remaining 20 soldiers who managed to escape from the deadly trap jaws, were successfully captured prisoner by the British.

This event went down in history as "the greatest number of human deaths from the animals." Also called the article in the Guinness World Records. "About a thousand Japanese soldiers were trying to repel the assault of the Royal Navy of Great Britain ten miles from the coast, in the mangrove swamps, home to thousands of crocodiles. Twenty soldiers were later captured alive, but most had been eaten by crocodiles. Infernal position retreating soldiers aggravated by a huge number of scorpions and tropical mosquitoes, which also attack them, "- said in the book of Guinness. Naturalist Bruce Wright, participating in the battle on the side of the British Battalion, claimed that crocodiles have eaten most of the soldiers of the Japanese squad, "This night was the worst, the kind that any of the men have ever experienced. Scattered in the black swamp muck screaming bloody Japanese squashed in mouths of huge reptiles, and strange sounds alarming was kind of spinning crocodiles cacophony of hell. Such a spectacle, I think few people could see on the ground. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what was left of crocodiles ... 1,000 Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps Rami, only about 20 were found alive ».

Saltwater crocodile is still considered the most dangerous and the most aggressive predator on the planet Earth. Off the coast of Australia is from saltwater crocodile attacks kill more people than a great white shark attack that mistakenly popularly considered the most dangerous animal. This species of reptile has the strongest bite in the animal world: large individuals can bite with a force of more than 2500 kg. In one case was recorded in Indonesia, suffolsky stallion weighing a ton and able to drag more than 2,000 kg, was killed by a large male sea saltwater crocodile, which dragged the victim into the water and pulled the horse's neck. The strength of his jaws is such that it is capable of a few seconds to crush the skull of a buffalo or shells of sea turtles.

Because documented cases of mass human sacrifices people from animal attack should also be noted incident since World War II, associated with the great white sharks attack who ate about 800 helpless people. This happened after the ship on which the civilians were bombed and were flooded.

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