February 1945. The British Army surrounded fleeing Japanese in a mangrove swamp in South Burma, where thousands of crocodiles lived. The Japanese refused to surrender. It is reported from the night of February 19th: “That night was the most horrible that any member of the crews had 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 1000 Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about 20 were found alive.”













