二战全史（1973）

The World At War S01E12

Part 4 June 6, 2022, 8:34 a.m.

So we held it, combined, back,
to keep the plane straight and level.
这不是一种"无论如何坚持下去"的感觉,
lt wasn't a "press on regardless" feeling,
这只是四个引擎仍在飞行的现实
it was just a fact that
the four engines were still flying.
如果我们有任何一个引擎
被打坏了,我就会想,
lf we'd had any engine cut,
l'd have thought,
"恩,我们再也飞不下去了"
"Well, we can't get any further."
但这里还有另一个因素是,
要是我掉头回去,
But another factor here was,
had I turned back,
我们还有另外六七百架轰炸机
多多少少也飞在同样的航道上,
we'd have another six or seven hundred planes
that are more or less on the same track,
分散在大约八或十英里宽
and spread something like
eight or ten miles broad
也许有四到六千英尺(上下)深
and maybe four to six thousand feet deep.
而你要回头正对着它们飞,
穿过这一大群才能飞回去
And you're turning back right into them,
heading through this lot to get back.
其次,要是我拐弯,比方说
转90度,以试图避开他们,
And then again, had I turned off, say
at 90 degrees, to try and avoid them,
你仍会穿过许多的它们(轰炸机)
you're still turning across
quite a number of them.
然后我看着目标指示弹并打开了炸♥弹♥舱
Then I watched the target indicators
and opened the bomb doors
并尽我可能使飞机保持平稳,
当我盯住目标指示弹,并保持水平
and kept the plane steady as I could on the target
indicators, and just kept straight level.
我想这很可能是他们小题大做的事情之一,
And I think this is probably one of
the things they made a fuss about,
就是我们要在扔完炸♥弹♥后
拍一张真实目标的照片
that we'd a picture of the actual
target after all this happening.
但我们把照片一拍完,我就掉头回基地
But as soon as we'd a picture taken,
l turned off to head for base.
在这一次旅途中我记得感觉的事情之一
One of the things I remember
feeling on this particular trip
就是我们必须回去,因为我知道我们受伤了
was that we had to get back,
because I knew we were wounded.
没有其他机组成员能飞它,
甚至在正常的笔直和水平状态,
None of the other members could fly it,you know,
even on normal straight and levels,
所以要在晚上少掉一个
升降舵的情况下飞它,
so to fly it at night
with one elevator gone,
把操纵杆拉到你肚皮这里
还没有仪表(导航),可以这么说,
and having the stick in your belly
and no instruments, as it were,
应该是不太可能做到的
would've been pretty well impossible.
我们在回去的路上又被(高射炮)
射了几次,但我们没被再次击中
We were shot at a few times on the way
back, but we weren't hit again.
终于,我们回到英国,
当我看到这些灯标在闪烁
And eventually, we came over England,
when I saw these beacons flashing.
当它降落时,起落架的腿
折叠着(放不下来),
As it touched down, the legs
of the undercarriage collapsed.
我们用我们的机肚滑行了或许有50码左右
We went along on our belly
for maybe 50 yards or so.
并停了下来关掉引擎以控制火灾
And came to a stop. Switched off
engines to keep the fire hazard down.
只是到了那时,我才知道领航员阵亡了,
lt was then only, that I knew
the navigator was killed,
因为他在我身边向前滑倒
because he'd slid forward beside me.
血结成了冰但获得维多利亚
十字勋章的轰炸机继续飞行
铁匠之子威廉·雷德获得维多利亚十字勋章
(英国♥军♥队最高勋章相当于美国荣誉勋章)
受伤后他用被打坏的飞机轰炸了目标并赢得维多利亚十字勋章
维多利亚十字勋章被授予一位轰炸机飞行员,他两次受伤,
缺乏氧气,他的领航员阵亡,他的无线电操作员受致命伤,
他的飞机被打坏并无法自卫,继续轰炸他的目标-杜塞尔多夫
他就是22岁的现役飞行中尉威廉·雷德,皇家空军志愿后备队
第61中队,母基地为贝列斯顿,靠近格拉斯哥
你看到大约多少架敌军战斗机？
And about how many enemy
fighters did you see?
我没能记录,长官,但我数到大约65架
I couldn't keep track,sir,
but I counted about 65.
当我数到50架我就没再数下去,长官
I stopped trying to count
when I got to 50, sir.
我想(不用说)一般都知道
战斗服役期是出25次任务,
I think it was generally understood
that the combat tour was 25 missions,
因为到那时候结束,你已经死了,
because you'd be dead
by the end of that time,
所以也没有任何理由
要求你再待更长时间了
so there wasn't any point
in asking you to stay around any longer.
轰炸机机组人员经历的是一场奇怪的战争
Bomber crews lived a curious war.
头一天还在交战,第二天就在城里了
One day in action, the next on the town.
(约翰·罗根领航员/投弹员)
当我们大队不飞的时候,
When our group wasn't flying,
(约翰·罗根领航员/投弹员)
他们一般进伦敦城
they'd usually go into London.
一整天都呆在伦敦
Spend the day in London.
但有时候,如果他们还剩下些钱,
And sometimes,
if they had some money left,
他们会打个电♥话♥查询第二天是否会有任务,
they'd call up to find out if there
was a mission going the next day,
如果没有,他们就留着过夜
and if not, they'd stay over.
高射炮会很猛烈,很可能也很精确,
Flak will be heavy,
probably accurate,
但你以前经历过更糟糕的
but you've been through worse before.
记住你最大的敌人仍然是单引擎战斗机
Remember that your biggest enemy
still is single-engine fighter planes.
我记得在军官俱乐部的一天晚上
l recall one evening
in the officers' club.
(约翰·柯考兰飞行员)
我们的行动军官把威士忌倒入一个吃角子老虎机,
Our operations officer was pouring
Scotch into a one-armed bandit,
你知道,就是你投25美分
进去的这些东西,
you know, these things
that you put quarters in,
试图说服这机器吐出一次累计赌注
trying to persuade the machine
to deliver a jackpot.
但...我猜这是种吃喝玩乐式的生活
But... I guess it was a kind of an eat,
drink and be merry sort of life.
(♪ 格伦·米勒 "美国巡逻兵进行曲")
(♪ "American Patrol" by Glenn Miller)
这次任务会很艰难
The going's gonna be rough.
你们将不得不扳扳你们的头颈,
呆在那儿并投弹,诸位
You'll have to pull your necks in there
and stay in there and pitch, every man.
我觉得飞行是如此的不受个人情感影响,
(Corcoran) I think that
flying is so impersonal,
我说的是战斗飞行,
that is to say combat flying,
以至于如果你看到一架飞机被击落
你不会有那种痛失战友的个人感觉
that you don't get that intimate sense of loss
if you see an aeroplane get shot down
而你会有这种感觉如果在(地面)战场上
距你咫尺之遥的伙计的头被轰掉的话
that you'd have if your buddy on a battlefield
had his head blown off right within arm's length.
来自英国,美国,被占领的欧洲,和英联邦的年轻人
Young men came from Britain,America, Occupied
Europe,and the British Commonwealth
参加并死于迄今为止发动
的最坚决的一次空中攻势
took fight and die in the most
determined air offensive yet waged.
1943年1月,在卡萨布兰卡,丘吉尔和罗斯福
决定联合起英国和美国的轰炸努力
ln January 1943, at Casablanca,Churchill and Roosevelt
decided to combine the British and American bombing efforts
为在纳粹占领下的欧洲登陆做准备
in preparing Nazi Europe for D-day.
U型潜艇造船厂,飞机制♥造♥厂...
U-boat yards, aircraft plants...
..军工厂,
..armament factories,
原油设施和运输工具,
oil installations and transport,
被认为是进行全天候
精确轰炸的优先目标
were deemed priority targets
for round-the-clock precision bombing.
但在夜间进行精确轰炸
对于哈里斯来说仍然是不可能的
But precision bombing at night
was still impossible for Harris.
用特殊设计的炸♥弹♥来炸掉
鲁尔大坝的一次进攻企图
An attempt to pick off the Ruhr dams
with specially designed bombs
只取得部分成功,
was only partially successful,
并付出了一些最好的机组成员的生命
and cost the lives
of some of the best aircrews.
尽管这次攻击导致后来的轰炸精确度
有所提高,但不是所有的大坝都被击中
Though the raid led to improved accuracy
later on, not all the dams were hit.
鲁尔的军工生产未受影响
Ruhr arms production was unaffected.
哈里斯相信只有发动夜间区域轰炸的猛攻
Harris believed that only the mounting
onslaught of night area bombing
才能摧毁德国的工业能力
would crush German industrial capacity.
在这个时候,我们正得到更好的飞机
(Mahaddie) At this time,
we were getting better aircraft.
"兰开斯特"轰炸机正被大量生产出来
The Lancaster was coming out in great numbers.
我们正在减少不那么有效率的
"斯特林"和"哈利法克斯"轰炸机
We were losing the less efficient
Stirling and the Halifax.
我们正得到更好的雷达设备
We were getting better radar devices.
我们有极其出色的领航员,
经过挑选的领航员
And we had extremely good navigators,
selected navigators.
而这是整件事情的实质
And this was the essence
of the whole thing.
而这些领航员能把飞机带到离瞄准点
比我们以前(到的位置)近得多的地方