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The Battle of Ramree Island has gone down in history for being known for one thing: a massive crocodile attack that apparently destroyed the Japanese as they attempted to retreat. But, what if we told you that that popular story was completely made up by one guy who wasn't even there at the time?

Sources:

Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War

McLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45

Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far.

Wright, B. S. (1968). The Frogmen of Burma

Platt, Steven. Man eating by Estuarine Crocodiles: the Ramree Island massacre revisited

Lyons, Chuck. The Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island. WWII History. Vol. 25. No. 1

Frazier, George. A Man's Worst Friend. The Boston Globe Archive. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/438950677/

https://the-avocado.org/2019/03/02/things-that-are-not-the-horrors-of-ramree-island/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/crocodile-massacre-of-troops-debunked-as-wartime-myth-k6vxhdfsq