战争（2007）

The War S01E04

Part 3 May 17, 2021, 11:49 a.m.

这一天 2.4万名伞兵中的首批部队
as the first
of 24,000 paratroopers,
乘坐1千多架飞机飞越英吉利海峡
flown over the Channel
in more than 1,000 aircraft,
空降在敌方战线背后的诺曼底
were dropped behind enemy lines
in Normandy.
德国人的大♥陆♥防御理论是
The Germans' theory of
the defense of the continent
沿海岸线构筑碉堡
was they put, they built
pillboxes along the coastline
将老弱的部队布署在里面
and they put
their old troops in it.
达文.卢斯阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
然后他们把装甲师
Then they put
their Panzer divisions
党卫师、精锐师
and their SS divisions
and their good divisions
调回中心据点
back in central points,
这个理论是当我们攻击海滩时
the theory being that
when we hit the beach,
他们可以从那些据点出动赶走我们
they would come in from
those points and drive us off.
我们的任务是楔入他们与海滩之间
Our job was to get in between
them and the beach
让他们来打我们而不是海滩
and to have them hit us
instead of the beach.
英军第6空降师多数士兵在目标点降落
Most of the men of the British
6th Airborne dropped on target,
重新集结并在1小时内完成任务
reassembled, and within an hour
had achieved their objectives,
夺取了奥恩河与迪沃河上的大桥
seizing bridges across
the Orne and Dives Rivers
阻止德军坦克沿着海岸
to keep German tanks
from mounting a counterattack
发动反击
along the coast.
在西翼
On the western flank,
101和82空降师的
the 16,000 Americans
belonging to the 101st
1.6万名美军运气没那么好
and 82nd Airborne divisions
were less fortunate.
低垂的云层遮住了月光
Low-hanging clouds
blocked the moonlight
看不清着陆地点
and obscured the landing zones.
科唐坦半岛狭窄的地域
The narrow neck of
the Cotentin Peninsula
从空中很难对准
was hard to hit from the air.
许多伞兵眼睁睁掉进了大海
Many paratroopers fell
helplessly into the sea.
其他人降落在德军灌满水的
Others landed in fields
and river valleys
田野和河谷里淹死了
flooded by the Germans
and drowned.
德军的曳光弹引爆了一些人携带的炸♥药♥
Some were blown from the sky
as German tracer bullets
他们在天上炸开了花
set off the explosives
they carried.
还有一些人空投得太低
Still others were dropped so low
他们的降落伞来不及打开
their parachutes
had no chance to open.
有人回忆他们撞上地面
They hit, one man remembered,
发出“像熟透的南瓜
with "a sound like ripe pumpkins
摔到地上的声音”
being thrown down
against the ground."
101空降师的士兵分散到
The men of the 101st Airborne
were scattered over an area
25英里长、15英里宽的区域
25 miles long by 15 miles wide.
许多人迷了路
Most of them got lost.
24小时后他们的指挥官还是没法
24 hours later, their commander
had still been unable to find
找齐一半幸存的手下
more than half
his surviving men.
82空降师的成员们降落在
Elements of the 82nd Airborne
came down in and around
圣梅尔埃格利斯小镇内外
the little town
of Sainte Mère-Eglise,
就在犹他海滩后面
just behind Utah Beach.
当一架滑翔机载着阿♥拉♥巴马州
The fighting was already raging
莫比尔的达文.卢斯飞往着陆地时
when a glider carrying
Dwain Luce of Mobile, Alabama,
激战已经打响
headed toward the landing zone.
他是西西里入侵和
A survivor of the invasion
of Sicily
萨勒诺登陆的生还者
and the landing at Salerno,
he was a captain
一位320滑翔机野战炮营的上尉
in the 320th Glider Field
Artillery Battalion.
我们以前打过仗
We had been in combat before
我们知道要面临什么情况
and we knew kind of what
we were getting into,
但我们知道这次是天地大冲撞
but, uh, we knew this
was the big bang
可以说有点让人胆战心惊
and it was... it was kind of...
worrisome, you might say.
滑翔机是战争中的新事物
Gliders were
something new in warfare:
悄无声息适于在敌后秘密着陆
silent, ideal for clandestine
landings behind enemy lines,
能够运送其他方式难以投放的
and capable of ferrying
equipment and vehicles
过于沉重的装备和车辆
too heavy to be dropped
in any other way.
但它们也很脆弱覆盖着易燃材料
But they were also fragile,
covered with flammable fabric,
不好操控
and hard to control.
在另一些着陆区
And in some landing zones,
德军布置了大量尖桩
the Germans had placed forests
of sharpened poles
来撕裂滑翔机刺穿机上的人员
to tear them apart
and impale the men aboard.
超过一半的滑翔机错过了空投地点
More than half the gliders
missed their drop zones
许多飞行员和乘员在撞击着陆时
and scores of pilots
and passengers were crushed
被向前撞击的车辆和大炮
when vehicles and artillery
pieces slammed forward
活活压死
during crash landings.
我记得在我们的滑翔机上我坐在飞行员旁边
I remember, in my glider, I
was sitting up next to the pilot
我靠着他的肩膀往下看
and I leaned over his shoulder
to look at it
我们飞过那些树我们的速度有每小时110英里
and we dove over those trees,
we were doing 110 miles an hour
我想这不是降落的速度
and I thought,
this is no speed to land.
但为时已晚
But it was too late to change.
幸好我没有降落在任何反坦克炮前面
I fortunately did not land
in front of any antitank guns,
这想法有点令人不齿
which were vicious.
我有位朋友降落在反坦克炮前
I had a friend that landed
in front, in front of one
他被压成了两截
and he was cut in half.
那些事情
And, uh, those are things
我不愿想起或谈起
you don't like to think about
or talk about.
达文.卢斯设法爬出滑翔机
Dwain Luce somehow
made it out of his glider
很快发现自己身处守卫
and quickly found himself
part of the continuing battle
圣梅尔埃格利斯的持续战斗中
to hold Sainte Mère-Eglise.
我们打了一仗
Oh, we had a fight,
德军很快扑过来
and the Germans
moved people in in a hurry.
我们没有重武器
You see, we didn't
have heavy weapons...
我们是跟重武器打
and we were fighting
heavy weapons.
战况很混乱
The fighting was confused.
没有确定的战线
There were no established lines.
有个家伙在我们上方的
There was some guy up on a hill
一座小山上试图搞乱我们
above me trying
to disrupt my life.
他向我们射击试图让我们...
He was, he was shooting at us
and trying to, trying to get us, and...
那有点像警♥察♥抓小偷
And it's kind of like cops and
robbers in a degree because,
因为你和他们混战在一起
I mean, you were in there
mixed up all with them.
我是说
I mean, they wasn't,
不是他们在那边我们在另一边
they wasn't on one side
and we were on the other;
我们都乱作一团
we were all like scrambled eggs.
尽管被分割包围彼此无法联络
Surrounded, isolated, out
of communication with one another,
达文.卢斯的部队还是奋力守住他们的阵地
Dwain Luce and his unit