越战50年（2015）

Vietnam: 50 Years Remembered S01E04

Part 10 Nov. 23, 2021, 1:02 p.m.

Kien Hoa receives the brunt
边和遭受了
of a 3,381 air strikes.
3381次空袭
At the end of Speedy Express,
1969年5月11日飞速行动结束之时
on May 31, 1969,
estimates of enemy dead
敌军死亡人数
are 10,889
据估达10889人
with only 748 weapons seized.
缴获武器仅746件
Many of the supposed
enemy are gunned down
许多疑似敌军的人
in a shoot first, ask
questions later manner.
都被采取了先枪击再询问的策略
If a Vietnamese is unarmed,
一个没武器的越南人
they are shot before
they can reach
即使身上藏有枪♥支♥
a potentially hidden firearm.
还未来得及掏出人就会被击中
It will be three more years
事发三年后
until the American people
learn of Speedy Express.
美国人才听闻此事
By the end of December 1968,
至1968年11月末
there are 549,500 U.S.
troops in Vietnam.
在越美军达549500人
The war's price tag
越南之战
of $77,350,000,000
耗费773.5亿美金
pales in comparison
但相比此战牺牲的16592条美国士兵的性命
to the 16,592
American lives lost.
完全不值得一提
It is the year with the
greatest number of casualties.
这一年伤员数量达到巅峰
- [Fred] All soldiers are,
you know, wanting to go home.
所有的士兵都想回家
And they're all
looking for peace.
他们都祈求和平
I don't care whether it
was the first World War
我不在乎这是一战
or second World War or Vietnam,
还是二战或是越南战役
you know, there's no soldier
没有哪位士兵或美国人
or no American that values peace
会觉得和平
more than the American soldier
比正在参战的
who's been in combat.
美国士兵的性命重要
You can ask one of our soldiers
你现在可以问问
that's over in
Afghanistan right now
我们正在阿富汗参战的士兵
the very same thing.
关于此观点的看法
- [Voiceover] Vietnam's
neighbor, Cambodia,
越南邻国柬埔寨
continues to vex
the United States.
依然是美国的心腹之患
Per the 1954 Geneva accord,
根据1954年日内瓦公约
the country is still
technically neutral.
柬埔寨从法律意义上说处于中立地位
Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, however,
然而诺罗敦·西哈努克王子
has allowed the Viet Cong
to set up headquarters
却同意越共在柬埔寨设司令部
and use the Cambodian
port of Sihanoukville.
利用西哈努克港口
Prince Sihanouk agrees to reopen
1968年末西哈努克王子同意
diplomacy with the United States
与美国重新开始
towards the end of 1968.
外交关系
While dealing with the
Prince on a diplomatic level,
在与王子外交交涉之际
President Nixon opts to tackle
尼克松总统选择
the Viet Cong
problem in Cambodia.
在柬埔寨解决越共问题
Nixon flies in the face
of government restrictions
尼克松悍然不顾政♥府♥限制
in authorizing Operation Menu,
授权美卢行动
a covert bombing of Cambodia.
秘密轰炸柬埔寨
March 18th, 1969.
1969年5月18日
A month after an
aggressive Viet Cong attack
在一场越共进攻美国♥军♥事基地
on American bases and Saigon
及西贡的战役始发一个月后
leaves 1,140 Americans dead.
美军死亡人数达1♥1♥4♥0
President Nixon signs
off on the first strike
尼克松总统签字授权了
against enemy bases in Cambodia.
对柬埔寨敌军基地发动的第一场进攻
60 B-52 bombers
60架B-52型轰炸机
drop 2,400 tons of bombs
向一处疑似越共基地的地点
on the supposed Viet Cong base.
投下2400吨♥炸♥弹♥
Considered successful,
15 more sites follow.
美军认为这次轰炸很成功对另外15处的轰炸便紧跟其后
Nixon and his National Security
Advisor Henry Kissinger,
尼克松和美国国♥家♥安♥全♥顾问亨利·基辛格
do their best to keep
the strikes top secret.
竭尽所能将这些进攻作为最高机密
Congress is not informed.
国会并不知情
And Nixon plants
phony telephone logs
尼克松甚至发布虚假电♥话♥记录
to cover his tracks.
以掩盖个人行踪
They are, however, exposed
然而当纽♥约♥时♥报♥的记者
when New York Times
reporter William M. Beecher
威廉·M·比彻
learns of Operation Menu
从政♥府♥匿名消息来源了解到美卢行动时
from an anonymous
government source.
事情还是被曝光了
The May 9th article
infuriates Nixon,
5月9日的报道惹怒了尼克松
who first suspects
Kissinger's aide,
最初他怀疑泄密的
Morton Halperin, of the leak.
是哈尔珀林的助理
And he starts a
spate of unrecorded
此后他便开始了迅猛的联邦调查局窃听行动
and illegal FBI wiretaps.
既没有留案底也并不合法
In spite of this, however,
然而即便如此
Operation Menu continues
for another year.
美卢计划依然继续了一年
The end of 1968 marks
the bloodiest year
1968年是越南战争
of the war in Vietnam.
最为血腥的一年
And the start of 1969,
1969年4月
by that April the war
has already eclipsed
越战中牺牲的人数
to 33,269 men
已超过十年前朝鲜战争中
who are killed in the
Korean War a decade earlier.
牺牲的33269人
But there is still more,
更多的人依然会死于越战
for the war is far from over.
因为战争还未停止
And the country will
find itself faced
随后美国将面临
with even more questions
in the coming days.
更多的问题