In 2015, a body was found in the jungle of New Guinea, and after an in-depth investigation by the police, the deceased turned out to be a World War II soldier who had been hanging from a tree for 70 years and was found to be part of a tree.
One day that year, several indigenous people from New Guinea went hunting in the dense forest. During this time, when a hunter looked up to search for his prey, he stumbled upon a strange thing, and several people approached to take a closer look, and they couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out to be a dead man hanging from a tree.
After the panicked hunter ran out of the forest, he immediately called the police, but the local police were also taken aback when they arrived at the scene. Because the deceased had apparently been dead for a long time, covered in green vegetation, and his body and tree trunk had grown together.
The police had a hard time collecting evidence, and almost the entire tree was cut down in order to remove the body of the deceased.
At first, the police thought it was an old homicide, but after forensic identification, the deceased had been hanging from a tree for 70 years, which happened to be at the end of World War II. In other words, the deceased died in the forest during the war years for unknown reasons.
Later, after an in-depth investigation by the police, it was speculated that the deceased might have been a World War II soldier based on the fibers of clothing, metal fragments and pieces of leather shoes found on the deceased's body, so they sought help from local military experts.
Based on the information provided by the police, military experts supported the police's judgment that it was an Australian soldier who died in the line of duty.
The soldier was most likely an Air Force pilot, and his plane was hit or malfunctioned during the mission, and he parachuted to save himself at the last minute. But he may have been injured during the jump, so that after being caught by a branch, he had no way to cut the rope, so he hung on the tree for a long time, and finally died of starvation, dehydration, and blood loss.
However, the police also raised questions about this. It stands to reason that the plane is made of metal, and even after a few decades, there should be wreckage left. However, when they conducted an on-site investigation, they launched a search centered on the scene, but did not find the wreckage of the aircraft.
The explanation of the experts that followed can also be said. Because the forest was close to the sea, he guessed that after the pilot parachuted, the plane taxied some distance and crashed directly into the sea.
Is this the case? It can only be determined after the nearby waters are recovered, but it is clear that the local police have neither the strength nor the need for this. After all, people are more important than everything, as long as the deceased can be buried in peace, it doesn't matter whether the plane wreckage is there or not.
Speaking of which, there is still a question, why don't experts suspect that the deceased was an ordinary paratrooper? To this the expert also responded.
Paratroopers will certainly not act alone on a mission, and if a comrade-in-arms dies in the process of parachuting, from the point of view of a soldier, it is impossible for a living person to leave his companion alone. Even if the situation was tense and there were no conditions to retrieve the corpse of his companion, he would return after the battle to bring his companion back.
Therefore, experts judge that the probability that the deceased was an ordinary paratrooper is not large.
The identity of the deceased was found, and the police reported the news to the military, which immediately attracted the attention of the military.
According to the historical data of the war, between 1943 and 1944, a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people broke out in Papua New Guinea, and the two sides were the Allied forces and Japan, mainly Australian troops. Although this battle is not very well-known in the history of World War II, it is not inferior to the more famous battles in terms of brutality.
At the time, Japan had invested hundreds of thousands of men to seize several small islands in New Guinea and then use them as a springboard to attack the Australian outback.
In terms of natural conditions, it belongs to the tropical rainforest, and the dense primeval forest is infested with poisoned insects, snakes and ants, which is not suitable for human survival at all. However, Japan has already hit the nose, and even if the Australian military is no longer willing to go to this place, it can only fight against the invading enemy.
In this tug-of-war, which lasted for more than a year, both sides invested huge troops and material resources, and the consumption of resources and soldiers was quite serious.
However, relatively speaking, the Allies had the home field advantage and the tactics they used were more flexible, and after some battles, they finally won a landslide victory. Despite this, the Allies also paid the price of tens of thousands of casualties or missing people, which can be regarded as a crushing victory.
According to post-war statistics, Japan invested more than 200,000 troops in this battle, but the number of missing alone exceeded 180,000, but no one would sympathize with the invaders.
In any case, although it is very old, and the Australian military cannot find out the true identity of the deceased, after all, it is a soldier who died in the battle against fascism, and finally buried him with heroic treatment.
