During World War II, the United States and Australia fought a brutal fight to the death with the Japanese in the Pacific. It wasn't until 70 years later, in 2015, on the war-torn island of Papua New Guinea, that a local hunter stumbled upon a body hanging from a tall tree. In this way, a long-ago past was vividly presented to the world and attracted the attention of the whole world. What's going on here? A bizarre discovery that allows us to lift the veil on the cruelty of World War II and relive that war-torn era.
Can you imagine the unforgivable body of an unforgivable person in the middle of a dense rainforest? It sounds like something out of a movie, and it's hard to believe. However, in 2015, a hunter in Papua New Guinea witnessed this horrific scene when he was hunting in the jungle and stumbled upon a tall tree trunk overgrown with weeds. It turned out that there was a corpse that "grew" on the tree like this, and even the clothes of the deceased were so rotten that they could barely be seen.
Such a bizarre way of displaying corpses can frighten the locals. They hurriedly called the police, and when the police arrived at the scene, they found that there was a plane wreckage next to the body, which seemed to be not simple. After a preliminary investigation, the experts finally confirmed a shocking fact: the body turned out to be an Allied pilot during World War II!
How could I have imagined that 70 years after this dispute, a skeleton of the Allied soldiers would be found on this isolated island? As soon as this incident was revealed, it immediately sparked heated discussions in global public opinion, and Australia, which participated in the war at that time, attached great importance to it at the highest level.
"What really happened? Why is this pilot here?" This is undoubtedly a mystery that haunts everyone.
After a difficult investigation, the police finally roughly restored the scene of the year. The poor pilot was in a combat operation when his plane was so badly damaged by an attack that he had to parachute to save his life. Fate played such a trick on people, and he fell straight into the dense jungle of the local area, and was tied to the rope of the parachute and hung on this tall treetop, and there was no hope of survival.
I said you think, even if he could still send a distress signal at that time, but under the dense jungle, I'm afraid it will be difficult to be detected, right? What's more, it will be a critical moment when the war is heating up, let alone rescuing a nobody, the Allies may not even be able to send extra manpower. Seeing his life pass by little by little, and he was seriously injured and unable to get off the ground, how desperate and helpless this poor pilot must have been!
Time flies, and in this way, seventy or eighty years pass inexorably. As the years passed, his body had become one with the towering tree, and if it hadn't been for the hunter's accidental discovery, he would have been buried forever in history.
Through some remaining clues, the police finally confirmed his nationality identity: he turned out to be a member of the famous Royal Australian Air Force. As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar in Australia, and tens of thousands of people spontaneously gathered to express their condolences to the fallen soldier.
Subsequently, the Australian government sent experts to the scene, carefully transported the pilot's remains back to China, and gave a solemn burial ceremony. Although after seventy years, we can no longer find out the name and identity of this pilot, but it is also a wish to finally let him return to his hometown.
In fact, during World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were killed in this tropical jungle, which can be regarded as a vast cemetery. The whereabouts of many people are still unknown and cannot be buried. Therefore, although the pilot had a bumpy road, he was much luckier than countless fallen comrades.
In contrast, the souls of the dead who died directly in the sea of fire or the sea of sleep were not so lucky. Their bones are likely to be buried there forever, without even a chance to see the light of day.
Overall, this is a legendary and brutal past. A brave man who stood up and fought, he was supposed to be a hero, but he suffered such a tragic fate, he was tortured by war before his death, and his bones were left after his death. However, throughout history, there have never been heroes in war, only hundreds of millions of innocent civilians and soldiers have endured endless suffering in the midst of killing and cruelty. As the saying goes, "there are many soldiers in the world", we should deeply remember the tragic lessons of World War II, avoid the recurrence of tragedies, and cherish the hard-won peace.