In the annals of our World Wars, there have been many atrocities committed by our kind against each other. The South Pacific during World War II holds a special distinction for being an especially brutal and savage killing ground the likes of which humankind has never seen before or since. Yet one of the bloodiest and most horrifying massacres in the history of the war came not from the hands human beings, but from the jaws and teeth of the animal kingdom.
During World War II on one remote island in the South Pacific, a platoon of nearly a thousand armed Japanese troops entered crocodile infested swamps and most never returned; a disappearance that, if reports are to be believed, would make it the single greatest instance of carnage caused by animals in history. more
Taste like chicken!
Japanese food good.
Can I get some wasabi?
Crocs were hungry again an hour later.
Sounds like a croc to me.
“Ooops.”
Maybe we could import a few of those crocs to help clean out the DC swamp.
@TonyR – unfortunately, the crocodiles 🐊 ARE the Deep State
If anyone wants to watch a great, honest documentary on the Pacific War, I highly recommend a four part 2001 series on YouTube called “Hell in the Pacific.” It really shows the horrific conditions that American, British, Australian, Dutch and Chinese military and civilians had to endure fighting against the vicious, fanatical Japanese in the Pacific. It’s absolutely the best documentary on this subject.
Kinda off topic, but in the battle for Burma, during a fight between the Japs and the British, a tiger leaped into the fray, grabbed a Jap by the head and carried him off. The entire battle stopped to watch, everyone dumbfounded.
Peculiarities of war, I guess.
izlamo delenda est …
@Tim
In the Korean War, a GI was mauled and killed by a Siberian Tiger.
Probably not true but part of me likes to think at least one of the Japs was one who helped murder and eat Australian POWs.
Always wondered what the inspiration for Godzilla was.
There are many historians as well as biologists that site this as a myth. I’d love if it were true, but I can see the likelihood it isn’t.
I found myself cheering for the Crocodiles.
Childs play compared with the atrocities of the vicious animals in the Japanese Army in China from 1937 to 1945.
Mass murder, burying people alive, rape and burning people alive. Men, women and children slaughtered by the Japanese.
The appalling brutality displayed by Japanese troops at Nanking was by no means unique.
It has been estimated by historians that several million Chinese civilians and Chinese prisoners of war were murdered in the course of Japan’s undeclared war on China between 1937 and 1945.
https://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/TenWarCrimes/Rape_Nanking.html
Of course not to mention the Japanese military regime murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war.
https://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/OverviewJapWarCrimes.html
There was also a great World War 2 movie called Hell in the Pacific from 1968 starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune which I saw when I was 15. It was just the 2 of them stranded together on an island in the Pacific Ocean and their struggle to survive one another.
What happened to the men of the USS Indianapolis was worse. I have no sympathy for the Nips. They were evil bastards.
And it wasn’t just the Jap submarine that sank the USS Indianapolis with its torpedoes but the sharks that finished off the survivors.
You guys make good points. Should rewrite the headline.
VALIANT CROCODILES INFLICT HUGE LOSSES ON BARBAROUS FOREIGN INVADERS!!!!
After reading about the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, and Unit 731 in Manchuria, I really couldn’t give a shit less about what happened to any fucking Japanese soldier/degenerate piece of shit during any part of WWII.
That “platoon of nearly a thousand armed Japanese” is the largest “platoon” I’ve ever heard of …
Their platoons must be made up of about 60-80 squads! 🙂
” … the single greatest instance of carnage caused by animals in history.”
Roman leading Christians into the Coliseum: ‘Hold my beer … ‘
So I guess there’s Japanese Take Out too.
“The Mangroves” by John Campbell is the story of Lt. Shoji Kichida of the 121st Imperial Infantry Regiment and the survival of only 20 of his men in the mangrove swamps of Ramree Island. This book was hard to put down.
“… Japan’s undeclared war on China between 1937 and 1945.”
Mukden was Sept. 18, 1931.
Though Manchuria it can be said to be the beginning.
The Japs had a lot of time to practice their brutalities – they became quite adept.
izlamo delenda est …
Wonder if the island is really called Ramree of if its just the way some Orientals pronounce it.