Vampire_Hunter_Bob
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Hi all,
I came across a Vintage News article that reminded me of Berserk. The article talked about the Battle of Ramree Island, during World War 2. It was fought between the British and colonial India armies against the Imperial Japanese army. After recapturing the airstrip, the Imperial army fled into the swamp.
While hiding out in the swamp the Japanese were attacked:
Another account by the British naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright paints an even more horrifying image of the scene:
The Japanese lost a total of 500 soldiers in the swamps, which, in the articles, gets attributed to the saltwater crocodiles. Realistically, the leading cause of death was most likely from disease, and then the crocodiles.
Not that I’m saying Berserk is directly inspired by this moment, but it does sound familiar to a number of horrifying moments that take place in Berserk.
Does anyone know of historical events that played a role in Berserk, or, at least, sounds like something from Berserk?
- VHB
I came across a Vintage News article that reminded me of Berserk. The article talked about the Battle of Ramree Island, during World War 2. It was fought between the British and colonial India armies against the Imperial Japanese army. After recapturing the airstrip, the Imperial army fled into the swamp.
While hiding out in the swamp the Japanese were attacked:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/11/an-army-of-1000-japanese-soldiers-was-decimated-by-saltwater-crocodiles-during-the-battle-of-ramree-island-of-world-war-ii/One night the British soldiers reported hearing panicked screams and gunfire emanating from within the darkness of the swamp. They didn’t know what exactly caused the shouts of terror they heard, but only that the Japanese troops were being ravaged by some evil menace.
Another account by the British naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright paints an even more horrifying image of the scene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramree_IslandThe 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 one thousand Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive.
The Japanese lost a total of 500 soldiers in the swamps, which, in the articles, gets attributed to the saltwater crocodiles. Realistically, the leading cause of death was most likely from disease, and then the crocodiles.
Not that I’m saying Berserk is directly inspired by this moment, but it does sound familiar to a number of horrifying moments that take place in Berserk.
Does anyone know of historical events that played a role in Berserk, or, at least, sounds like something from Berserk?
- VHB