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All time worst mass animal attacks (Ramree Island and USS Indianapolis)
Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:48 pm
Not sure which disaster would be more miserable to be in. I think Ramree Island would have been worse.
Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
USS Indianapolis. After the Americans delivered one of the A-bombs on a top secret mission, the Japs torpedoed the ship, and no one was available to help, they also did not have an escort. The sailors were left for days in the middle of the Pacific dying of thirst, and eventually becoming food for sharks (tiger and white tip mostly)
Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
USS Indianapolis. After the Americans delivered one of the A-bombs on a top secret mission, the Japs torpedoed the ship, and no one was available to help, they also did not have an escort. The sailors were left for days in the middle of the Pacific dying of thirst, and eventually becoming food for sharks (tiger and white tip mostly)
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 8:42 pm
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Posted on 4/10/21 at 7:51 pm to burger bearcat
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Ramree Island, Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles.
Good
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:04 pm to burger bearcat
I feel like the Shark would be a better way to go, tear you up quicker and also pull you down and swim really fast drowning you quicker.
Damn crocodile would probably beat and scratch the crap out of you while he was ripping your guts out in shallower water
Damn crocodile would probably beat and scratch the crap out of you while he was ripping your guts out in shallower water
This post was edited on 4/10/21 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:09 pm to burger bearcat
Not knowing what’s below me in the ocean is probably my biggest fear, but saltwater crocs sounds pretty terrifying
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:10 pm to burger bearcat
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Japanese soldiers were out flanked by the Allies and retreated to the other end of the island, and had to spend the night in the mangroves being eaten alive by Saltwater Crocodiles
frick em
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:11 pm to burger bearcat
I'll take mangrove swamp. You at least have the ability to climb a tree to survive.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:14 pm to burger bearcat
I can remember the name of the river off the top of my head, but Japanese dead and wounded met a similar fate on Guadalcanal. Marines were set up on one side of the river and slaughtered the Japs as they tried to cross. Crocodiles finished the job.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:15 pm to burger bearcat
Yeah, shark would probably be quicker
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:16 pm to burger bearcat
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Japanese soldiers
Sushi sounds good to me.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 8:21 pm to burger bearcat
Pretty sure the saltwater crocs story was debunked. Most of these Japanese drowned or were shot and the crocs ate the remains.
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:01 pm to burger bearcat
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:08 pm to burger bearcat
Recent thread on the Indianapolis
Some good links and info in here
Interested to look up Ramree island now
Some good links and info in here
Interested to look up Ramree island now
Posted on 4/10/21 at 10:47 pm to burger bearcat
Indianapolis survivors lasted 6 days in the water.
The crocodile story probably isn’t accurate.
The crocodile story probably isn’t accurate.
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These figures have been disputed by other historians, who call the event an urban myth.[12] McLynn wrote Most of all, there is a single zoological problem. If 'thousands of crocodiles' were involved in the massacre, as in the urban (jungle) myth, how had these ravening monsters survived before and how were they to survive later? The ecosystem of a mangrove swamp, with an exiguous mammal life, simply would not have permitted the existence of so many saurians before the coming of the Japanese (animals are not exempt from the laws of overpopulation and starvation).[13] The British official history (War against Japan volume IV, The Reconquest of Burma, 1965 [2004]) referred only to "crocodile-infested mangrove swamps".[7] In 2016, Sam Willis reported having found documentation indicating that the Japanese soldiers mostly drowned and/or were shot and that crocodiles scavenged on their corpses afterwards.[14]
Posted on 4/12/21 at 2:41 pm to burger bearcat
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Japanese
They started it. So they deserved everything they got and more.
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