二战启示录 第88期:罪魁伏诛(5)

 But when the Marine land on this tiny island with its only 9 kilometers wide

但当海军陆战队登陆这宽仅九公里的小岛

one of its bloodiest battles of the war begins

大战最血腥的战役之一于焉展开

Over 15 thousand Americans and at least 27 thousand Japanese will be killed or wounded

超过1万5千名美军和至少2万7千名日军非伤即亡

A month and a half after D day the fighting is still fierce

诺曼底登陆日一个半月后战火仍相当猛烈

The Allies advancing but Eisenhower is worried

盟军不断稚进，但艾森豪威尔忧心忡忡

Hitler is determine to contain the Allies in Normandy

希特勒决心将盟军挡在诺曼底

in order to protect the launch ramps for his "weapon of terror", the V1

以保护他的“恐怖武器”V1的发射台

which is fired at London from the northern France

他从法国北部对伦敦发射这种武器

It is the first cruise missile ever to be used

这是史上首度使用的巡弋导弹

The V1 is a flying bomb with a pulse jet engine and one ton explosive warhead

V1是一种飞行炸弹，配有脉冲喷射引擎和一吨炸药弹头

this small, swift, pilotless aircraft is diffcult to intercept and shoot down

这小、迅速、无驾驶的飞行器很难被拦截和击落

The British call them "Buzz Bombs" because their make motorcycle noise

英国人称它们为“嗡嗡炸弹”，因为这导弹会发出机车式噪音

but alert Londoners till their arrival

警告伦敦人它们的降临

By the time the V1's reached the capital city

V1抵达伦敦时

their fuel is used up and their engines die out

燃料已用尽，引擎也熄火

Londoners never konw where they will fall

伦敦人永遗无法知道飞弹会落在哪里

Nearly twenty thousands of these missiles were launched agsinst England and continent of Europe

德军对英国和欧洲大陆发射近两万颗这种导弹

killing eleven thousand people

导致1万1千人死亡

But even under these conditions the British retain their pluck and their composure

尽管处于如此险境英国人仍保持住勇气和沉着

If the V1's failed to demoralize the British

若V1无法打击英国士气

their purpose was also to boost the morale of Germans

它们的目的还包括提振德国民心士气

The years they've had to live in underground shelters

他们已被迫住在地下避难所多年

American bombers by day and British bombers by night demolish Germany cities under a carpet bombs

美英轰炸机分别于日夜，地毯式轰炸德国城市

American planes droped one point four million tons of bombs

美军飞机投下140万吨炸弹

Allied bombing lead to around six hundred thousand casualties seven million homeless

盟军的轰炸导致约60万人伤亡，7百万人无家可归

Such as these outcome of strategic bombing campaign

这就是战略轰炸作战的结果

Whose purpose is to destory industrial and human potential behind Germany war time effort

目的在摧毁德国战力上的工业和人员潜力