从太空看二战（2012）

你要知道敌人训练有素的军队在那儿等着你
You know there were trained troops who had been there for you
瞄准着滩头的每一条小径
sighting every avenue or approach of the beach
而且你要意识到敌人可能发动猛烈的反击
You know there could be a massive counter attacks
德军可是这方面的专家
Germans are masters of that
所以，这里会有非常多的不确定因素
So there's just so much uncertainty
适于行动的良机已捉襟见肘
The window of opportunity is desperately narrow
盟军最高指挥官艾森豪威尔最终确定了登陆日期
Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower sets the date
1944年6月5日
June 5th 1944
一旦艾森豪威尔做出决定
Once Eisenhower made the decision
便无法回头，没有计划B
it was irrevocable, there was no plan B
孤注一掷，一往无前
This was it, go for broke
要么入侵（德占欧洲）行动成功
Either the invasion would succeed or
要么入侵（德占欧洲）尝试无限期搁置
the invasion attempt would have to be put off indefinitely
德怀特·艾森豪威尔曾写过这样一张小条
Dwight Eisenhower sat down and wrote a little note
“为登陆失败付全部责任”
"Taking blame for the failure of the landings"
如果登陆失败他就将这个小条交上去
That he was appeared to deliver if it did fail
在盟军阵营中没人敢保证行动一定能成功
No one on the Allied side saw this is a sure thing
当盟军轰炸链接诺曼底和东部地区的法国基础设施（路、桥）时
As the Allies bombed the French infrastructure connecting Normandy to the east
300万军人已与民间隔离，枕戈待旦
3 million servicemen are locked away from the population
沿海城镇被全部关闭
Coastal towns are locked down
战争的命运悬于一线
The fate of the war hangs in the balance
由于天气不利，在经历了24小时紧张的等待之后
After an agonizing 24-hour delay due to the bad weather
霸王行动，这个二战中盟军最为重要的行动正式开始
Overlord, the most important Allied operation of WWII, is set in motion
在舰队向诺曼底进发之前
Before the armada embarks for Normandy
盟军发动了最后一次精明的欺诈行动
the Allies launch one final master class of deception
为了让德军误以为加莱是盟军的主攻方向
To convince the Germans that Calais is the invasion site
英军轰炸机在低空盘旋
British bombers circle at low altitude
把数吨♥金属箔条洒向空中
dropping tons of metallic chaff into the air
这让德军的雷达上出现了大量的信♥号♥♥
This created a huge radar registry for the Germans
这支通过假文件与假基地在他们意念里建立起来的幻影军团
and this phantom army that has been constructed in their minds through documents and fake bases
现在开始活起来了
now it starts to come alive
完全打乱了德军的防御计划
Totally through the German defense planning
使德军陷入混乱
It through into disarray
在情报战的掩护下
With misdirection campaign underway
主攻部队朝着目标前进：
the invasion force heads towards its targets:
5个滩头
5 beachheads
和一处位于奥克角峭壁顶部的炮台
and a cliff top gun emplacement at Pointe Du Hoc
在行动之前，空军和海军的联合轰炸沉重打击了德军的岸防阵地
Ahead of the transports, an aerial then a naval barrage pound the costal defenses
尽管如此，登陆艇上的士兵
Despite the assault, the men on the landing craft
还是遭到了德军猛烈火力的压制
come under ferocious German fire
战场扑朔迷离
It was confusing
德军飞机从我们头顶上呼啸而过
The German planes were gone right over us
炸♥弹♥、枪炮及其它所有声音夹杂在一起
There were these bombs and guns going on with everything else
其中一些人被炸♥弹♥击中了
Some of them are taken hit by bombs already
那种样子看起来像是...你完全认不出了
Now you can see is like ... you don't know who they were
有的人死在了水里，还有些被炸断了的残肢
see guys dead there in the water, some are limbs or upper arms
还有迫击炮在向登陆艇开火
There're mortars, they are firing on the boats
有的人当时就被吓哭了
Some guys were crying a little bit
有的人甚至被吓尿了
Some guys was even urinating
我们都非常紧张
We were all nervous
每个人都如此
Everybody was
但你对此却无能为力
But there is nothing you can do about it
你很清楚自己的任务，所以必须要完成它
You know what you had to do, then it had to be done
Charles Barley 和 Michael Brillo
Charles Barley and Michael Brillo
都是第一波登上奥马哈海滩的士兵
are among the first to hit Omaha
这是德军防御最严密的滩头阵地
the most heavily defended German position
很多人成群结队的下船
A lot of guys were a bunch get out of the boat
瞬间就被那些家伙杀掉了
and they were killed instantly by those things
我们跳进水里
We got into the water
水大约齐腰深
The water was up to my stomach
我自言自语道：“再见了Charles，你死定了”
I said to myself, I said, "Goodbye Charles, you are gone"
之后在水里的体验异常恐怖
And then it was really a terrible feeling in the water
你能看到周围全是尸体,你无法认出他们
You see there're bodies lying around, you couldn't identify them
真的很肮脏，很血腥
It's really nasty, really bloody
当时能从船上下来就已经很幸运了
Those fortunate enough to make off the boats
他们即将要面对的场景几乎是无法想象的
the scene they would've confronted is almost unimaginable
很多人甚至还没有从晕船中缓过神来
They would have been suffering still from seasickness
他们能听到子弹从头上呼啸而过
They would've heard the whirling of the bullets above their heads
还能看到前面那些已经死了的和还没有死透的美军士兵
They would see in front of them dead and dying American soldiers
那时已经不只是混乱了
But it was more than chaos
而是充斥着死亡的混乱
it was deadly chaos
随着盟军顶着德军无情的火力继续抢滩登陆
As the Allies continue to land against merciless German fire
伤亡率也在急速飚升
the casualty rates soars
但是在15个小时的激战后
But after 15 hours of fighting
所有滩头阵地都被拿下
all beachheads are taken
而奥克角也在第二天被盟军攻占
with Pointe Du Hoc falling the following day
盟军有一万人伤亡
The Allies suffer 10,000 casualties
但这些流血牺牲却换取了几乎不可能的成就
But it is bloodshed achieving the almost impossible
他们在纳粹占据的欧陆取得了立足之地
They have a foothold in Nazi-occupied Europe
对希♥特♥勒♥而言，这就好比一场噩梦
For Hitler, this was the nightmare come to pass
我们基本上，你看
We basically, you know
就相当于在1944年6月6日给纳粹德国下达了死亡判决
signed the death certificate of Nazi Germany on June 6th 1944
在诺曼底滩头阵地被压制了数个星期后
After weeks and weeks of being bottled up in the Normandy beachhead
全军的突进速度远超过原来的预期
the breakout that occurred exceeded expectations
行动的成功离不开支持前线的巨大后勤补给网络
The success is down to the network of supply lines chasing the front line soldiers
链接法国与战略大后方英国的是滩头的人造港口
Connecting France with the war depot of Britain are artificial Mulberry harbors
在前10个月当中，卸载了250万人
landing two-and-a-half million men,
400万吨♥补给品，50万辆载具
4 million tons of supplies, and 500,000 vehicles within the first 10 months
为进攻输送油料的为“冥王星”行动
Fueling the offensive is Operation Pluto
70英里长的海底管线
70 miles of undersea pipe lines
每天将100万加仑的燃油输送到法国
pumping up to a million gallons of fuel per day into France
如此吨♥位，如此百万加仑，如此规模的燃油输送工程
Those tons and those millions of gallons of fuel were on a scale that
恐怕以后都不会再有了
probably won't be replicated in the future
所以他们完成的工作也许在人类史上都是独一无二的
So what they accomplished might be unique in human history really
从太空上看
From space
盟军正以惊人的速度推进着
the speed of advance is astounding
8月19日，巴黎解放
August 19th, Paris's liberated
接着是鲁昂，凡尔登
followed by Rouen, Verdun
安特卫普和布鲁塞尔
Antwerp and Brussels
到9月份时，盟军已推进到了德国本土的边境——齐格菲防线
By September, the Allies reach the Siegfried Line on the cast by the German fatherland
希♥特♥勒♥发动了他最后的绝地反击——突出部战役
Hitler launches his final desperate counterattack, the Battle of the Bulge
尽管损失惨重，盟军仍然取得了最终胜利
Despite heavy losses, the Allies prevailed
而纳粹德国则被逼到了绝境
And Nazi Germany stands on the abyss
希♥特♥勒♥在阿登的豪赌基本上宣告了第三帝国的终结
Hitler's gamble on the Ardennes basically insurers the end of the Reich
这是他最后一支可在东线或西线实施影响战局行动的机动力量
This is his last operationable force he had, where he can try to influence the pace of either front, east or west
一旦他投入并耗光这支部队
Once he threw that force way
美苏两大势力在来年攻陷德国将不可避免
the American-Soviet conquering of the Reich in the next year was inevitable
欧洲战事接近高♥潮♥
The war in Europe nears its climax
在地球的另一边
On the other side of the planet
向日本的挺进也临近了血腥的结局
the drive towards Japan is also approaching it's bloody conclusion
但攻取每一座岛屿都伴随着巨大的损失
But every island invaded is coming at increasingly higher cost
在每一个进攻阶段都遭遇了日本的凶猛抵抗
At every stage of the ferocity and the intensity of the Japanese defenses increases
在塞班岛他们的想法是采用自杀式防御战略，硫磺岛更是加倍
what they thought was suicidal defense tactics in Saipan are redoubled at Iwo Jima
1945年2月19日
February 19 1945
6万海军陆战队士兵强攻硫磺岛
60,000 U.S. marines storm the island of Iwo Jima
无与伦比的惨烈战斗在这里上演
where a battle of unrival brutality begins
在硫磺岛的战斗可以说是美军史上所经历的最激烈战斗
The fighting on Iwo Jima stands it's arguably the fiercest fighting that U.S. military personnel had ever experienced
没有更多的惩治手段能令这帮日军屈服
There's no amount of punishment which could be inflicted on the Japanese that would cause them to lose their will
实际上，他们决定了要死在这片土地上
Essentially they've decided that they are going to die there
当你一旦有了这种自杀的狂热想法，这意味着
When you have that kind of suicidal fever, it means
以前的种种战术都将不再奏效
the sort of tactics you might have used previously don't work
然后我们开始使用火焰喷射器
And so we start using flame throwers
凝固汽油弹，坦克与之近距离交战
napalm, tanks up-close
这种方式的战争很黄很暴♥力♥
a style of battle that raises the level of violence
甚至超过了我们见过的早期二战
even pass what we've seen in earlier parts of WWII
真的是难以想象
just hard to imagine
当硫磺岛最终沦陷
When Iwo Jima falls
日本伤亡2万人，而美军伤亡2万3千人
Japan suffers 20,000 casualties, compared to 23,000 Americans
美军的伤亡第一次超过了它的敌人
The first time, U.S. casualties exceed that of their enemy
由于盟军准备进攻冲绳岛
As Allied forces prepare to invade Okinawa