Ramree Crocodile Attacks (Real Monsters)

During the Second World War there was an incident in South East Asia called the battle of Ramree Island. For six weeks the battle of Ramree Island was fought in 1945. The allied wanted to take back the island to establish sea-supplied airbases on them. They succeeded and the Japanese soldiers fled into the Mangrove. Bruce Wright, the naturalist has said this about the incident:

"That night [of the 19 February 1945] was the most horrible that any member of the M.L. [motor launch] crews ever experienced. 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.”

These figures are controversial but the Ramree Crocodile Attacks are still listed in the Guinness Book of Records as “The Greatest Disaster Suffered from Animals.”