战争（2007）

The War S01E03

Part 4 May 17, 2021, 11:49 a.m.

当道格拉斯.麦克阿瑟将军的部队
While General Douglas
MacArthur's forces
从澳大利亚向北进军菲律宾时
moved north from Australia
toward the Philippines,
海军在切斯特.W.尼米兹上将指挥下
the Navy, under
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
开始挺进太平洋中部
began its advance across
the Central Pacific.
塔拉瓦是个珊瑚环礁是吉尔伯特群岛的一部分
Tarawa was part of the Gilbert
chain, a coral atoll...
38个小岛围成一圈环抱一个蓝色潟湖
a ring of 38 tiny islands
around a blue lagoon...
标志着日本为保护其新帝国
that marked the easternmost edge
of the perimeter
而建立的外♥围♥边界的最东端
Japan had built to shield
its new empire.
首要目标是重兵布防的一个
The main target was
a heavily fortified island
建有飞机跑道的岛屿
with an airstrip.
这个岛只比纽约中♥央♥公园大一点点
It was only a little larger
than New York's Central Park,
却驻防着4500名日本帝国海军陆战队
but defended by 4,500 Japanese
Imperial Marines,
藏身于一个由散兵坑、堑壕和
hidden within a maze
of rifle pits and trenches
数以百计的互不相连的碉堡、混凝土掩体
and hundreds of interconnected
blockhouses
组成的迷宫里
and concrete pillboxes.
塔拉瓦岛将成为两栖作战
Tarawa was to be the test case
新理论的测试场
for a new theory
of amphibious warfare:
就是说任何岛屿无论其防守多么严密
any island, no matter
how fiercely defended,
都可以通过全力正面进攻拿下
could be taken by
an all-out frontal assault.
官方对国内的说法是
The official version
for the people back home
一切都进展顺利
was that everything
was going smoothly.
入侵部队登上战舰和运输船
The invasion force
of warships and transports steams
出征吉尔伯特群岛
for the conquest
of the Gilbert Islands,
舰艇上满是军人
and aboard vessels
crowded with troops,
正在举♥行♥宗教仪式
religious services are held.
做礼拜的是一些勇士
The worshippers are fighting men
他们知道将要深入虎穴
who know they are going
into desperate peril,
很多人注定要献出他们的生命
where many are destined
to give their lives.
这是对塔拉瓦岛日军
And now, official
Navy motion pictures
猛烈炮击的海军官方影片
of the bombardment of the Japs
on Tarawa with giant salvos.
但轰炸和炮击产生了太多烟雾
But the bombing and
shelling yielded so much smoke
和珊瑚尘埃导致从军舰上
and coral dust
that the fleet's view
看不清楚登陆艇
of the landing craft
was obscured.
射击停止了半个小时以澄清空气
Firing was stopped for half
an hour to clear the air,
日军有了很多时间
plenty of time for the Japanese
为进攻作准备
to ready themselves
for the assault.
运送陆战二师的
The landing craft,
meant to ferry the Marines
登陆艇靠近海滩
of the 2nd Division
close to the beach,
停在珊瑚礁上很容易成为敌军的活靶子
hung up on the coral reef,
easy targets for enemy guns.
士兵们被迫在敌军炮火下
Men were forced
to wade shoulder-deep
涉着齐胸深的水走上几百码远
for hundreds of yards
under enemy fire.
第一波攻击就造成一些伤亡
The first wave
suffered some casualties.
第二波再遭重创
The second was badly hit.
第三波...几乎被摧毁
The third... nearly destroyed.
傍晚时分登上海滩的5千名陆战队员
By nightfall, 5,000 Marines
had made it to the beaches...
除约1500人外全都阵亡或受伤
but some 1,500 of them
had been killed or wounded.
来自莫比尔的希德的邻居莫里斯.贝尔
Maurice Bell, a neighbor
of Sid Phillips from Mobile,
曾用他的双筒望远镜从美军战舰
had watched the landings
with his binoculars
“印第安安波利斯号♥”上观察登陆
from the deck
of the USS Indianapolis.
我能看到岛上的激战
I could see the fighting
going on on the island,
就像发生在街对面
just like if it was just
across the street here.
看起来就是那么近
Looked like it was that close.
到处都有陆战队战士倒下
And soldiers and sai... Marines
falling all over the place
莫里斯.贝尔阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
你可以看到水里的尸体
and you could see
bodies in the water.
那是我希望永远不再发生的事情
And it's something that
I hope never happens again
因为那时发生的事
because it's just
things that happened
让我永生难忘
at that time I'll never forget.
“来一百万人一百年也不可能拿下塔拉瓦”
"A million men cannot
take Tarawa in a hundred years,"
战役开始前一位日军指挥官这么说
the Japanese commander
had said before the battle.
而1万名陆战队员拿下它只花了4天
It took ten thousand
Marines just four days.
但其中超过三分之一的人
But more than one third of them
阵亡或受伤
had been killed or wounded.
陆战队指挥官告诉媒体
The Marine commander
told the press
塔拉瓦岛能够攻克就是因为
Tarawa had fallen only because
有许多年轻的美国人愿意赴死
so many young Americans
had been willing to die.
愤怒的父母们谴责他冷酷无情
Outraged parents denounced
him for callousness.
阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
最终陆军部改变政策
Eventually, the War Department
reversed policy
制♥作♥了一部名为《海军陆战队在塔拉瓦岛》的电影
and produced a film called
With the Marines at Tarawa,
其中的战斗画面比普通美国人
containing combat footage
more brutal
此前看到的要残酷得多
than anything ordinary
Americans had ever seen.
华盛顿的一些人说公开这些
Some in Washington
argued that its release
会挫伤士气但罗斯福总统
would damage morale, but
President Roosevelt himself
亲自下令上映该片
ordered that it be shown.
他希望给美国人一个清晰的认识
He wanted to give Americans
a clearer sense
他们的战士面对的是什么
of what their men were facing.
这些就是陆战二师的士兵们
These are the men
of the 2nd Marine Division,
他们正在进行
who are now embarking
一次全面的两栖行动...
on a full amphibious
operation after many...
我们看到第一次看到塔拉瓦的影片时
When we saw those
first pictures of Tarawa,
凯瑟琳.菲利普斯亚拉巴马州莫比尔
我们受不了
we were overcome,
真的受不了
just overcome.
在我们登陆前3天时间里
For three
days before we moved in,
超过4百万磅爆♥炸♥物
over four million pounds
of explosives
倾泻到岛上
had been dropped on the island.
让我们无比震惊
It was just devastating to us.
那些美国兵的尸体在海浪中漂浮
Those American boys' bodies
floating in the surf.
牧师的帮手们在收尸
The chaplain's
assistants tend the dead.
我们坐在一起哭
We just sat around and cried,
我知道了这就是为什么
and I know that's
why they'd kept it
他们对美国公众保密那么久
from the American public
for so long.
这些是陆战队员的尸体
These are Marine dead.
这就是我们必须为一场迫不得已的战争付出的代价
This is the price we have to pay
for a war we didn't want.
我们对日本人的厌恶非常强烈
Our dislike for the
Japanese was very violent,