History And Legend
The villagers know of the sunken freighters, submarines, and troopships that rest on the bottoms of their harbors and hidden bays. Eerily blackened hulls of bombed-out planes sit beside old airstrips, and debris from hundreds of crashed planes lies camouflaged in the mountainous rain forests and lowland jungles.
They know the history because they were there. Many perished, and many thousands of Japanese soldiers were never accounted for. Even today, after heavy rains, villagers report shapes rising up in the mangrove swamps like mummies in a horror movie…