[Enterprise]

I feel badly for the poor man, but these guys REALLY had a bad time of it.

"The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left…Of about 1,000 Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about 20 were found alive.”

Death in the Swamps of Ramree

[Jonty30]

I knew Australian crocs were vicious as all heck.

[yarddog]

I had a professor tell the class that the Japanese Oil workers in the Amazon area were losing so many men to crocs that they bought up huge supplies of dynamite and just went along the swamps blowing everything up.

He said they used so much dynamite that there was a world wide shortage for several years.

[IMR 4350]

I think there is also a record from one of the Jap survivors.

Said they tried climbing in the trees and the crocs jumped up and picked them off.

[left that other site]

We have mangroves and crocodiles (albeit not as big and not as many!) in Florida. It is quite disconcerting riding one's Harley on a narrow 20 mile causeway and seeing a sign:

CAUTION: WATCH OUT FOR CROCODILES"

Gators are Sunday School Kids compared to these guys! (Shudder)

I am an avid student of WW2, and had never heard that story. Thank you for the link.

[B4Ranch]

That’s proof that Mother Nature was on our side.