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To: Jonty30

I remember several years ago reading about the Japanese army crossing through a swamp in WWII and the crocs ate hundreds of them.


8 posted on 06/09/2014 6:55:41 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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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

36 posted on 06/09/2014 7:53:55 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: IMR 4350

Good crocs


74 posted on 06/09/2014 10:40:28 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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