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The port of Majunga was seized by British forces from the Vichy French in September 1942.
To prevent any French troops from retreating to Tana, a party of British Commandos was taken up the Ikopa River to the south of Majunga in small boats.
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Unfortunately, as the boats travelled up the river, they ran aground on a sandbank.
The simple solution to this was for the men to climb out of the boats and drag them into the main channel - but the river was full of crocodiles !
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The Commandos found that the only way they could keep the crocs at bay was by throwing hand grenades at them.
The soldiers fought their way through the crocodiles and finally reached their objective, only to find that their perilous journey had been in vain.
Instead of trying to retreat, all the French had simply surrendered !
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