战争（2007）

The War S01E04

Part 5 May 17, 2021, 11:49 a.m.

Among the thousands of
men moving toward the beaches
有两个老兵先前参加过
were two veterans
of earlier invasions
北非和西西里的入侵
in North Africa and Sicily.
来自堪萨斯州曼哈顿的
They were from
Manhattan, Kansas...
沃尔特.埃勒斯上士和他哥哥罗兰.埃勒斯
Staff Sergeant Walter Ehlers
and his older brother, Roland.
他的年纪只比我小一点点
He was a little
bit shorter than I.
他红发、蓝眼睛笑起来很好看
He had red hair, and he had blue
eyes and a beautiful smile.
他一直是个完美的绅士
And he was a perfect gentleman
all the time.
他衣冠楚楚一表人才
And he, uh, he was immaculate
in dress and everything.
他让我也保持这种派头
And he tended to keep
me that way, too.
早上6点半入侵部队开始登陆诺曼底
At 6:30 a.m., the invasion
force began landing in Normandy.
犹他海滩首当其冲
Utah Beach came first.
飘起的烟雾遮住了目标
Drifting smoke that
obscured the target
强烈的洋流使他们的登陆艇偏离了航道
and strong currents that drove
their landing craft off course
把美军带到原定作战地点
brought the Americans into shore
more than 2,000 yards
2千多码之外的海岸
from the spot chosen
by the planners.
但小西奥多.罗斯福将军
But General
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
只拿着一根手杖召集他的人马
armed only with a cane,
rallied his men
不到1小时就占领了滩头阵地
and took the beachhead anyway
in less than an hour.
在登上犹他海滩的2.3万人中
Of the 23,000 men who went
ashore at Utah Beach,
只有197人死亡
only 197 were lost.
将近中午时美军坦克驶离海滩
By late morning, American tanks
were moving off the beach
与被围困在圣梅尔埃格利斯的
to rendezvous with the embattled
82nd Airborne
82空降师会合
at Sainte Mère-Eglise.
我们在战线后方当然不知道
We were back
there and we didn't know
海滩上发生了什么
what was going on
on the beach, for sure.
我们知道如果我们完成了自己的任务
We knew that the beach
would hold
就能拿下海滩
if we'd have got our job done.
我们也知道如果拿不下海滩
We also knew that
if the beach didn't hold,
我们也许会被留在那里我们会被抛弃
we would probably be left there,
we would be abandoned,
他们不可能把我们救出去
they couldn't get us out.
因此很自然对我们来说至关重要的是
So naturally, it was
of great interest to us
完成我们的任务希望他们守住海滩
to get our job done
and see the beach hold.
我永远难忘、百感交集的
One of the things
I will always remember,
一件事就是
with a great deal of emotion,
看到领头的坦克开过来
is that first tank
that came through.
因为那辆坦克一马当先开过来
Because that first tank
came through,
我知道海滩拿下了
I knew the beach had held
我知道援兵正在路上
and I knew help was on the way.
英军将以差不多同样快的速度
British troops would take
拿下黄金海滩和利剑海滩
the Gold and Sword beaches
almost as fast,
尽管德军坦克阻止了他们
though German tanks
prevented them
夺取下一个目标卡昂城
from capturing their next
objective, the city of Caen.
加拿大部队也拿下朱诺海滩
Canadian troops took Juno, too,
尽管他们306艘登陆艇中有90艘
although 90 of their 306
landing craft were destroyed
被德军的障碍物损毁他们的入侵部队中
by German obstacles,
and one in every 18 men
每18人中就有1人阵亡或受伤
in their invading force
was killed or wounded.
他们仍设法
Still, they managed
在傍晚时分向内陆
to fight their way
seven miles inland
挺进了7英里
by nightfall.
但对于进入奥马哈海滩的美军
But for the Americans in the
1st and 29th Infantry Divisions
第1和第29步兵师来说
approaching Omaha Beach,
这是最困难的登陆地点
the most difficult landing site,
几乎事事都要出岔子
almost everything
would go wrong.
奥马哈是5个海滩中最宽阔的海滩
Omaha was the broadest
of the five beaches,
也是水最深的有100码铺满鹅卵石
and the deepest,
with 100 yards of pebbles,
然后是沙丘、铁丝网和丛生的灌木
then sand dunes, barbed wire
and thick undergrowth,
全都布满地雷
all of it heavily mined.
在那些令人望而生畏的峭壁后面
Behind all that loomed
formidable bluffs
有2千名德军守御着
fortified by
2,000 German troops,
其中很多是身经百战的老兵
many of them battle-seasoned
veterans.
这些要塞俯瞰着通往内陆的
Stützpunkts, or strongholds,
overlooked the four gullies
4条宽沟每条沟布置了70名德军
that led inland... each manned
by 70 Germans with machine guns,
配备机♥枪♥、迫击炮和穿甲榴弹炮
mortars, and armor-piercing
howitzers,
全部瞄准想要登陆的部队
all zeroed in on the men
about to try to come ashore.
第二阶段中
During Phase Two,
美军飞行员已经把大多数炸♥弹♥扔在内陆几英里处
American pilots had dropped most
of their bombs miles inland.
海滩上没有可以隐蔽的弹坑
There were no bomb craters
in which to take shelter,
海军的炮击几乎没有削弱德军防御
and the naval bombardment had
barely dented German defenses.
我们接近海滩时看到右边全是船
As we are approaching it,
we see ships to the right of us,
左边也全是船
ships to the left of us.
天空布满了热气球
The skies are loaded
with these flying balloons.
战舰在开火我们可以看到炮弹
The battleships are shooting and
you could see the projectiles,
军舰里射出的14英寸炮弹
the 14-inch projectiles
from the battle wagons,
划过天空
going through the air.
火♥药♥的气味
The smell of powder.
我们不知道等我们到达那里时
We didn't know what
we were going to hit
会被什么击中
when we got in there.
士兵们已经转移到离岸12英里的
Men had been transferred
to their landing craft
登陆艇上天还很黑
12 miles from shore
and while it was still dark,
所以很多船弄错了正确的登陆位置
so that many boats lost
their proper positions going in.
大海波涛汹涌
The sea was rough.
士兵们大多没有睡觉
The men, most of whom
had had no sleep,
又湿又冷还晕船
were wet and cold and seasick.
用来开路并为步兵提供掩护的
The amphibious tanks that were
supposed to lead the way
水陆两栖坦克
and provide cover
for the infantry
被投放在海上太远的地方
were released
too far out at sea;
32辆坦克从运载他们的船上滚下去
32 tanks rolled off the vessels
that carried them,
除了5辆坦克之外全部沉入海底
and all but five went
straight to the bottom.
大多数坦克手被困在里面
Most of their crews
were trapped inside.
登陆艇被水淹没
Landing craft were swamped;
许多身背装备的战士
scores of men,
burdened with equipment,
被慢慢淹死大声向其他颠簸着
slowly drowned,
screaming for help
经过的船只求救
as other boats wallowed
past them.
不许指挥官停下来救他们
Commanders were forbidden
to stop and pick them up.