战争（2007）

The War S01E05

Part 15 May 17, 2021, 11:50 a.m.

他们戴着帽子而不是头盔
They were wearing caps,
not helmets.
两人都被打穿头部
And each had been shot
through the head.
其中一个人青红色的脑浆
And the blue, bluish-red brains
从鼻孔里流出来
of one were coming out
his nostrils...
他们的眼睛还睁着
they had their eyes open, too.
另一个人
And the other one,
青红的脑浆从他帽子底下流出
his bluish-red brain was coming
out just from under his cap,
就像戴了另外一顶帽子
and sort of displacing
his cap as he wore it.
这真让我惊惶不已
And that really gave me a jolt.
我很少提起这事
I seldom refer to it.
但这让我认识到某些痛苦的事实
But it was my introduction
to some painful facts...
这场战争是真真切切的
that this war is serious.
我们要去杀人不管年长年幼
We are going to kill people
regardless of their age,
只要他们穿着德军制♥服♥
as long as they're wearing
German uniforms
而且他们也想杀掉我们
and they are going to try
to kill us.
我经常想德国人为什么不放弃
I often wondered
why the Germans didn't quit.
我想为什么诺曼底登陆后他们为什么不放弃
I wondered why they didn't quit
after Normandy.
一旦我们成功登上欧洲大♥陆♥
Once we successfully landed
on the continent,
达文.卢斯阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
我觉得很显然我们要赢了
to me it was obvious
we're going to win the war.
无非是时间问题
It was just how long,
or how soon.
想到我们所有的经历我们杀掉的那些人
And we, all that we went through
and the people that were killed.
但你有什么选择？
But... what's your alternative?
盟军欧洲司令部没等
The Allied Command in
Europe had not waited to see
市场花♥园♥行动尘埃落定
how Operation Market Garden
turned out before mounting
就对西墙防线——盟军称之为齐格菲防线
four more-or-less simultaneous
assaults on the West Wall,
几乎同时发起了4次攻击
which the Allies called
the Siegfried Line.
每一次都落空了
Each had fallen short.
第7集团军占领了斯特拉斯堡
The Seventh Army overran
Strasbourg
但在莱茵河西岸受阻
but was halted
on the Rhine's west bank.
巴顿的第3集团军攻占了梅斯
Patton's 3rd Army took Metz
夺取萨尔河上的3个桥头堡
and secured three bridgeheads
across the Saar,
但在获得充足的燃料之前
but could proceed no further
无法更进一步
until it could get enough fuel
to go on.
在北部的2次进攻
In the north,
two attacks were launched
是美军第1集团军发起的
by the American 1st Army:
一路剑指德国城市亚琛
one was aimed at the German city
of Aachen;
另一路试图试图从南部
the other intended
to sweep the enemy
50平方英里被叫作霍根森林的林区
from the 50 wooded square miles
just south
发起对敌人的扫荡
of that city
called the Hürtgen Forest.
霍根森林战役是最糟糕的
The Hürtgen
Forest was the worst.
你很少听说这个战役是因为
And you haven't heard much
about it because...
那真是一团糟
it was just a mess-up.
汤姆.盖洛韦阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
没有理由穿越那个林区
There was no reason
to go through the forest,
但将军们坚持要穿越
but the generals kept wanting
to go through the forest.
你在那里投入一个师打消耗战
And you'd put a division
in there and chew it up.
然后他们会撤出部队
And they'd pull it out
再另一个师打消耗战
and put another division in
and chew it up.
那是一个噩梦般的战场
It was a
nightmarish place to fight.
长满100英尺高的杉树
With 100-foot fir trees
某些地方生长的树间距只有4英尺
that in some places grew
just four feet apart,
森林被稠密、阴暗被潮湿的雾气笼罩
it was so dense and dark
and shrouded in dank fog,
一位将军回忆说
one general remembered,
“进入森林时你想在身后扔下一些东西
that "upon entering it you want
to drop things behind
“来标记你的路径
"to mark your path,
就像汉瑟和葛丽特洒下面包屑”
（格林童话《糖果屋》的故事）
as Hansel and Gretel did
with their bread crumbs."
树林间藏着德军两条平行防线
Two parallel lines
of German pillboxes
由碉堡和原木加泥土的掩体构成
and log-and-dirt bunkers were
hidden among the trees,
相隔数英里
several miles apart.
松针铺满林间空地
The pine needles that blanketed
the forest floor
里面有伪装的引爆线
disguised tripwires
和被美军称为“弹跳贝蒂”的地雷
and mines the Americans called
"Bouncing Betties"
会跳到空中在齐腰高度爆♥炸♥
that sprang into the air
and went off at groin height.
计划这场战役的指挥官们
The commanders
who planned the battle
对地形几乎一无所知
knew almost nothing
about the terrain
从未亲自到这里看一眼
and never came to see it
for themselves.
也没有人训练过在这种地方打仗
And no one had been trained
to fight in such a place.
一位军官说“我们一天攻占了3棵树
"We're taking three trees
a day," one officer said,
每棵树让我们付出了一百人的代价”
"and they cost us
a hundred men apiece."
最初奉命进入森林的两个师
The first two divisions
to be ordered into the forest
将在3周内损失4500人
would lose 4,500 men
in three weeks...
推进却不到3英里
...and move less
than three miles.
11月2日第28步兵师也进去了
On November 2, the 28th
Infantry Division followed.
里面有来自阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔的
With them was
Second Lieutenant Tom Galloway
汤姆.盖洛韦少尉
from Mobile, Alabama,
他是希德.菲利普斯和他姐姐凯瑟琳的老熟人
an acquaintance of Sid Phillips
and his sister Katharine.
他本是奥尔本大学的大四学生
He had been a senior
at Auburn University
现在是一名前线的替补军官
and was now a replacement
officer on the front lines,
作为一名前方观察员
a forward observer
为109野战炮兵团侦察目标
scouting targets
for the 109th Field Artillery.
我替换的那个人中弹了
The man I replaced
got shot, and, uh...
在他身上发生了那样的事
it just wasn't too good
to think that, uh...
而你替换了他这么想并不明智
what happened to him,
but then you've replaced him.
在地面上几乎不可能发现目标
Targets were almost
impossible to spot from the ground.
浓密的植被和持续的雾气也遮蔽了空中侦察
Dense growth and constant fog
hid them from the air, as well.
坦克在狭窄、泥泞、布满地雷的
Tanks could barely move
on the handful
伐木小道上几乎寸步难行
of narrow, muddy,
heavily mined logging trails.
士兵们互相都看不见人更别说看见敌人
Soldiers could not see one
another, let alone the enemy.
一位指挥官说“要是有人说他知道他在哪里
"If anyone said he knew where
he was," one commander said,
那他就是个该死的说谎者”
"he was a damned liar!"
尽管有种种困难
Despite everything,
盖洛韦所在的师还是在两天内
Galloway's division took
its first objective...
拿下了第一个目标一个叫施密特的小镇
the little town of Schmidt...
in just two days.
第二天早上德军又夺回了它
The Germans took it back
the following morning.