10.The First Jet.
10、第一架噴氣機(jī)
1.It was just noon on that 25th day of April 1945. I had gone through my first minutes of combat. The 456th Bomber Group, based in Italy, had gone into Austria. They had hit the railroad yards at Linz along the Danube River.
1、事情發(fā)生在1945年4月25日的中午。我正在執(zhí)行我的第一次戰(zhàn)斗任務(wù)。基地在意大利的第456轟炸機(jī)組剛剛飛進(jìn)奧地利。他們要轟炸多瑙河沿岸位于林滋的鐵路工廠。
2.My job was to drop chaff. They were the little bundles of tin that confused enemy radar. Through the 3-inch-square chaff chute, I could see the enemy shells exploding just below us.
2、我的工作是拋撒干擾片。它們是錫制的很小的捆，能夠干擾敵人的雷達(dá)。透過(guò)3平方英寸（拋撒）干擾片斜道，我能看到敵人的炮彈就在我們（飛機(jī)肚子）底下爆炸。
3.Just after "bombs away," a sharp blow rocked our plane. An enemy shell had ripped a hole in the floor of the airplane. It was about a yard from the engineer's feet.
3、剛剛執(zhí)行“投彈完畢”命令，一下急速的打擊使我們的飛機(jī)搖晃起來(lái)。敵人的一顆炮彈已經(jīng)在飛機(jī)的地板上撕破一個(gè)大洞。它距離工程師的腳不過(guò)一碼。
4."Engineer to pilot," his voice said, "we've been hit."
4、“工程師呼叫機(jī)長(zhǎng)，”（耳機(jī)中）他的聲音說(shuō)道，“我們被擊中了�！�
5."Bad?"
5、“很嚴(yán)重嗎？”
6."Don’t think so. It missed the control cables-went out through the top."
6、“不太嚴(yán)重。它沒(méi)有擊中控制纜，穿過(guò)頂棚出去了�！�
7.No more talk. It was over. But it left a shaky feeling. We knew that the war was almost over. A guy's chances of getting home were good.
7、沒(méi)有更多的交談。這件事過(guò)去了。但是它留下令人震撼的感覺(jué)。我們都知道戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)幾乎結(jié)束了。一個(gè)軍人戰(zhàn)后回家的機(jī)會(huì)很高。
8.Each of us was thinking the same thing. If that shell had hit us half a second sooner, it might have hit the pilot. Three inches to the left and it would have cut some cables. A tiny instant later, and it would have hit one of us.
8、我們中的每個(gè)人都在想同樣的事。如果那顆炮彈早半秒擊中我們，它可能擊中機(jī)長(zhǎng)。只要偏左3英寸，它將會(huì)割斷某些控制纜。稍微遲后瞬間，它將擊中我們中的一個(gè)。
9.The bomb run ended. The bomb bay doors slid shut. Suddenly we were in the clear open sky.
9、一連串的轟炸結(jié)束了。彈艙門(mén)關(guān)上了。剎那間我們沖入晴朗的廣闊天空。
10.We let ourselves feel a bit safer now. We had the three-hour flight home. It was across part of Yugoslavia. Then came the voice of our nose gunner.
10、現(xiàn)在我們使自己感到多了一點(diǎn)安全。我們要用3個(gè)小時(shí)飛回家。正在橫穿南斯拉夫某地。這時(shí)傳來(lái)我們的前機(jī)槍手的聲音。
11."Fighter. Eleven o'clock low. Coming in fast."
11、“戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)。11點(diǎn)方向下。逼近得非�？��！�
12."Whose?" somebody said.
12、“誰(shuí)的？”有人問(wèn)。
13."Not ours," came the answer, forward. "Never saw anything like it. it's closing in now...fast...fast...never saw anything so fast."
13、“不是我們的，”從前方傳來(lái)回答，“從來(lái)沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)像這樣的東西�，F(xiàn)在它正在接近，太快了，太快了，從來(lái)沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)任何東西這么快�！�
10、第一架噴氣機(jī)
1.It was just noon on that 25th day of April 1945. I had gone through my first minutes of combat. The 456th Bomber Group, based in Italy, had gone into Austria. They had hit the railroad yards at Linz along the Danube River.
1、事情發(fā)生在1945年4月25日的中午。我正在執(zhí)行我的第一次戰(zhàn)斗任務(wù)。基地在意大利的第456轟炸機(jī)組剛剛飛進(jìn)奧地利。他們要轟炸多瑙河沿岸位于林滋的鐵路工廠。
2.My job was to drop chaff. They were the little bundles of tin that confused enemy radar. Through the 3-inch-square chaff chute, I could see the enemy shells exploding just below us.
2、我的工作是拋撒干擾片。它們是錫制的很小的捆，能夠干擾敵人的雷達(dá)。透過(guò)3平方英寸（拋撒）干擾片斜道，我能看到敵人的炮彈就在我們（飛機(jī)肚子）底下爆炸。
3.Just after "bombs away," a sharp blow rocked our plane. An enemy shell had ripped a hole in the floor of the airplane. It was about a yard from the engineer's feet.
3、剛剛執(zhí)行“投彈完畢”命令，一下急速的打擊使我們的飛機(jī)搖晃起來(lái)。敵人的一顆炮彈已經(jīng)在飛機(jī)的地板上撕破一個(gè)大洞。它距離工程師的腳不過(guò)一碼。
4."Engineer to pilot," his voice said, "we've been hit."
4、“工程師呼叫機(jī)長(zhǎng)，”（耳機(jī)中）他的聲音說(shuō)道，“我們被擊中了�！�
5."Bad?"
5、“很嚴(yán)重嗎？”
6."Don’t think so. It missed the control cables-went out through the top."
6、“不太嚴(yán)重。它沒(méi)有擊中控制纜，穿過(guò)頂棚出去了�！�
7.No more talk. It was over. But it left a shaky feeling. We knew that the war was almost over. A guy's chances of getting home were good.
7、沒(méi)有更多的交談。這件事過(guò)去了。但是它留下令人震撼的感覺(jué)。我們都知道戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)幾乎結(jié)束了。一個(gè)軍人戰(zhàn)后回家的機(jī)會(huì)很高。
8.Each of us was thinking the same thing. If that shell had hit us half a second sooner, it might have hit the pilot. Three inches to the left and it would have cut some cables. A tiny instant later, and it would have hit one of us.
8、我們中的每個(gè)人都在想同樣的事。如果那顆炮彈早半秒擊中我們，它可能擊中機(jī)長(zhǎng)。只要偏左3英寸，它將會(huì)割斷某些控制纜。稍微遲后瞬間，它將擊中我們中的一個(gè)。
9.The bomb run ended. The bomb bay doors slid shut. Suddenly we were in the clear open sky.
9、一連串的轟炸結(jié)束了。彈艙門(mén)關(guān)上了。剎那間我們沖入晴朗的廣闊天空。
10.We let ourselves feel a bit safer now. We had the three-hour flight home. It was across part of Yugoslavia. Then came the voice of our nose gunner.
10、現(xiàn)在我們使自己感到多了一點(diǎn)安全。我們要用3個(gè)小時(shí)飛回家。正在橫穿南斯拉夫某地。這時(shí)傳來(lái)我們的前機(jī)槍手的聲音。
11."Fighter. Eleven o'clock low. Coming in fast."
11、“戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)。11點(diǎn)方向下。逼近得非�？��！�
12."Whose?" somebody said.
12、“誰(shuí)的？”有人問(wèn)。
13."Not ours," came the answer, forward. "Never saw anything like it. it's closing in now...fast...fast...never saw anything so fast."
13、“不是我們的，”從前方傳來(lái)回答，“從來(lái)沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)像這樣的東西�，F(xiàn)在它正在接近，太快了，太快了，從來(lái)沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)任何東西這么快�！�
