On February 19, 1945, British troops invaded a tropical island off the coast of Burma, forcing the Japanese occupiers to retreat into the island’s crocodile-infested mangrove forests. One veteran of the Ramree Island campaign, Bruce Stanley Wright, described the night that followed: “The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, … Continue reading In one WWII battle, crocodiles killed more Japanese soldiers than the Allies