World War 2 was the setting for some of the world's worst horrors, but less talked about is a devastating crocodile attack.
The 'Ramree Island massacre' is considered by many to be the worst crocodile attack in history and occurred in January 1945 as British troops fought in Burma, now Myanmar.
British soldiers managed to drive back around 1,000 enemy Japanese troops into a swamp and it is this moment that the 'worst ever' crocodile attack is believed to have happened.
The swampy mangrove jungle on Ramree is home to a number of crocodiles, who began to prey on the retreating Japanese on February 19, 1945.
Naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright was present at the battle and claimed the awful event was caused by the fearsome reptiles "with their eyes above the water, watchfully alert for their next meal".
He wrote: "The crocodiles, alerted by the din of warfare and smell of blood, gathered among the mangroves, lying.
"With the ebb of the tide, the crocodiles moved in on the dead, wounded, and uninjured men who had become mired in the mud."
It is not known how many soldiers fell prey to the giant reptiles, which can grow over six metres in length, though estimates say 500 men did not make it out of the swamp alive.
Wright added: "The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of the 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."
Some historians have called the supposed massacre an urban myth, but the wartime testimony of soldier Robert Duff backs up the story.
He said: "We had some very hard fighting, but after a few weeks we managed to push the Japanese to the swamp on the other side of the island, which was full of crocodiles.
"They decided to take their chances in the swamp rather than surrender. Only a handful came out alive.”
Crocodiles are some of the worst feared water-dwelling human killers around and can terrify people with their vicious and deadly snapping jaws.
In the village of Luganga in Uganda between 1991 and 2005, a terrifying beast was known for snatching people on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Osama, who some villagers thought was immortal, could use his powerful frame to capsize boats and plunge flailing people into the water, before they were dragged into the murky depths below.
Reports claim he killed as many as 80 people, including children as young as 12.
He was eventually captured in 2005 after a week-long stakeout using cow lungs as bait and he was wrestled out of his Lake Victoria home.
He was sent to a breeding farm to produce offspring that were to be killed and used for fashion items like handbags.
