I remember reading/watching something about a squad/unit that in war that would go around the battlefields killing the dying men.
Does anyone have any information on them?
I think they were called possum-squad or something...
Basically they would clean-up the battlefields but not in the sense of moving corpses or bodies but killing the wounded/dying/suffering.
As my title says they were the Grim-Reapers of the Battlefields.
2007-03-08 00:11:01 · 2 answers · asked by Dellian 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The possum units were to come up after the first wave of the battle to make sure non of the enemy were playing possum and attack from behine.
2007-03-08 01:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by David R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. There have been a lot of battles / wars fought throughout history. It was often common for the wounded of one's own army to be killed as there was no means to care for them, so rather than let them lay there and suffer, they would be killed. Other armies would kill all the wounded of their eneny to insure that none of them survived. This has varied from time to time and culture to culture. It is said that the Turks were marching on Vlad The Impaler and decided to turn around after they encountered several meadows with spears sticking out of the ground with impaled heads of a defeated army on them.
2007-03-08 08:32:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋