Bataan Rescue

In December 1944, American POWs, some survivors of the Bataan Death March, were in their third year of captivity at a Japanese Prison Camp in the Philippines.

1944 年 12 月，美国战俘（巴丹死亡行军的一些幸存者）被关押在菲律宾的日本战俘营已经第三年了。

As they huddled around a clandestine radio set, they heard shocking news.

当他们挤在一台秘密收音机周围时，他们听到了令人震惊的消息。

At another camp on Palawan Island one hundred-fifty of their fellow prisoners had just been herded into trenches by their Japanese guards, doused with gasoline, and set on fire.

在巴拉望岛的另一个集中营，一百五十名战友刚刚被日本看守赶进战壕，浇上汽油，然后纵火焚烧。

In the midst of a massive campaign to retake the Philippines, US military commanders shared the POWs fears.

在夺回菲律宾的大规模战役中，美国军事指挥官也对战俘怀有同样的恐惧。

Their only option was to conduct an urgent mission to save 500 prisoners.

他们唯一的选择是执行拯救 500 名囚犯的紧急任务。

Operating behind enemy lines, an elite unit of Army Rangers would have seventy-two hours to get them out.

在敌后作战时，陆军游骑兵精锐部队将有七十二小时的时间将他们救出。

The raid to save the surviving POWs would be the most daring rescue mission of the Second World War.

这次拯救幸存战俘的突袭将是第二次世界大战中最大胆的救援任务。

This is the Philippines in 1940, a modern, civilized country, a piece of America, peopled with fellow Americans.

这是 1940 年的菲律宾，一个现代化的文明国家，是美国的一部分，居住着美国同胞。

In December 1941, the Japanese attacked the Philippines just hours after Pearl Harbor.

1941 年 12 月，珍珠港事件发生后几小时，日本袭击了菲律宾。

The United States' colony in the Pacific had a large garrison of American defenders, but this peace-time army was ill-equipped to fight a real war.

美国在太平洋的殖民地拥有大量美国守军，但这支和平时期的军队装备不足，无法打一场真正的战争。

The day the war started, I was sent to the armament to pick up armament sections for our group, I picked up four cases of rifles and two cases of ammunition all packed in 1918.

战争开始的那天，我被派到军械处为我们组取军械部分，我取了四箱步枪和两箱弹药，都是1918年包装的。

We couldn't defend ourselves against them, they had better equipment, they were in better shape, they were better trained, everything they were, we weren't.

我们无法抵御他们，他们有更好的装备，他们的状态更好，他们训练有素，他们拥有一切，而我们却没有。

The Japanese invaded with modern weapons and the advantage of better supply lines.

日本人凭借现代武器和更好的补给线优势进行入侵。

The enemies stock of aircraft and equipment seemed almost limitless.

敌人的飞机和装备库存似乎几乎是无限的。

The American troops were isolated 7000 miles from home.

美军被隔离在距家乡7000英里之外。

They couldn't be re-supplied, and their food and ammunition were running out.

他们无法得到补给，他们的食物和弹药也即将耗尽。

We kept hearing of convoy being on the way.

我们不断听说车队正在路上。

And we kept watching in the Bay and kept watch and watch, but it never happened.

我们一直在海湾里观察，观察，观察，但它从未发生。

Retreating from Manila to the Bataan Peninsula, the American and Filipino forces waited for help.

美国和菲律宾军队从马尼拉撤退到巴丹半岛，等待援助。

In March 1942, after three months of constant Japanese attack, the American commander, General Douglas MacArthur was ordered to leave the Philippines for his own safety.

1942 年 3 月，经过三个月的日本持续攻击，美国指挥官道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟将军奉命离开菲律宾以确保自身安全。

The defenders fought on alone for another month, but the Bataan peninsula could not hold.

守军又孤军奋战一个月，巴丹半岛却守不住。

By April, cut off without food or ammunition, mass surrender became inevitable.

到了四月，由于没有食物和弹药，大规模投降已成为必然。

You can only fight so much on an empty stomach, you just can't do that.

空腹的时候你只能打这么多，你就是做不到。

And then the sickness too.

然后还有疾病。

By the time April the ninth come along, we couldn't fight anyhow.

到了四月九号的时候，我们无论如何也打不了了。

If we'd had the equipment we couldn't have done nothing -- we're all too weak.

如果我们有装备的话，我们就不可能什么都不做——我们都太弱了。

First I heard of the surrender was at my, uh, commanding officer said that "You're all on your own, you're free to do what you want to do.

我第一次听说投降是在我的，呃，指挥官说：“你们都是靠自己的，你们可以自由地做你们想做的事。

But, before you do that, I want all this ammunition and all the guns completely destroyed." I disconnected my 50-caliber machine gun -- Took it all apart, I bent the barrel over a rock and threw it in the China Sea, then we were ready to go.

但是，在你这样做之前，我希望所有这些弹药和所有枪支都被彻底摧毁。”我断开了我的50口径机枪——把它全部拆开，我把枪管弯到一块岩石上，然后把它扔进中国海，然后我们就准备出发了。

We marched down into Mariveles Airstrip, and that's where the surrender basically took place.

我们行进到马里韦莱斯机场，那里就是投降的地方。

We had the feeling that we'd be in disgrace back home because we surrendered, 'cause the U.S. Army didn't surrender.

我们有一种感觉，因为我们投降了，我们会在国内蒙羞，因为美国陆军没有投降。

As 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers laid down their arms the enemy's plans for dealing with a sudden influx of prisoners were woefully inadequate.

当 70,000 名美国和菲律宾士兵放下武器时，敌人应对突然涌入的囚犯的计划严重不足。

The Japanese intended to move their prisoners sixty miles north to camps in the interior.

日本人打算将囚犯转移到北边六十英里的内陆营地。

The Japanese intelligence was all wrong.

日本的情报全错了。

They got the numbers wrong, they got the condition of the men wrong.

他们弄错了数字，弄错了人员的状况。

They didn't realize that some 80% of these men had malaria, and they had dysentery, and, and they'd been starving to death for, for months in the jungle.

他们没有意识到，这些人中大约 80% 患有疟疾，他们还患有痢疾，而且他们在丛林中已经饿死了几个月。

It was a whole lot of organized confusion.

这是一大堆有组织的混乱。

They didn't know what the hell they were doing, themselves.

他们自己也不知道自己到底在做什么。

I think that they didn't realize how many people they had to put up with.

我认为他们没有意识到他们必须忍受多少人。

The Japanese told us when we started, everybody had to move under their own power.

当我们开始时，日本人告诉我们，每个人都必须依靠自己的力量行动。

If you don't go under your own power, we're going to eliminate those who are helping and those who are being helped.

如果你不屈服于自己的力量，我们就会消灭那些正在帮助的人和那些被帮助的人。

Well, we didn't go two miles until they started dropping out.

好吧，我们还没走两英里，他们就开始掉队了。

At that time, they were shooting you.

那时，他们正在向你开枪。

Every one of us was sick.

我们每个人都病了。

I had a 104 fever.

我发烧了104度。

The man to my immediate right was executed because he couldn't keep up.

我右边的那个人因为跟不上而被处决。

There were about 500 Filipinos marching ahead of us.

大约有 500 名菲律宾人走在我们前面。

I don't know how many of those were executed on that march.

我不知道那次游行中有多少人被处决。

Some of them just fell down in the road because of tiredness, nothing to eat.

他们中的一些人只是因为疲倦而倒在路上，没有吃东西。

But there are so many people along the road.

但路上的人却很多。

On the area where we were passing, people, civilians having food, handing their food, trying to give to us, but, we cannot break the line.

在我们经过的地区，人们、平民在吃食物，递给我们食物，试图给我们，但是，我们不能打破界限。

We had artesian wells all along the road, you wouldn't, they wouldn't let you stop and get it.

我们沿路都有自流井，你不会，他们不会让你停下来取水。

If you'd go for it, why they'd, they got to the point they didn't shoot you anymore because they were ordered to save ammunition, they used a bayonet.

如果你愿意，他们为什么会这么做，他们已经不再向你开枪了，因为他们被命令节省弹药，他们使用了刺刀。

Sketches drawn from memory by survivors provide the most graphic accounts of the ordeal.

幸存者根据记忆绘制的草图提供了对这场苦难最生动的描述。

Thousands perished as American and Filipino prisoners were forced to tramp miles to detention camps north of Manila.

美国和菲律宾囚犯被迫步行数英里前往马尼拉以北的拘留营，造成数千人死亡。

The captives suffered a series of horrors which became known as the Bataan Death March.

俘虏们遭受了一系列恐怖事件，被称为巴丹死亡行军。

There were people being shot there and these two handed swords cuttin' people's heads off, that death march was just plain murder, that was, as you walked along you could smell, the odor was terrible from guys that had been left a day or so ahead of time, and laying in the sun, you know, and they left them people laying there.

有人被枪杀在那里，这两把剑砍下人们的头，死亡行军只是简单的谋杀，也就是说，当你走过去时，你可以闻到，那些提前一天左右被留在阳光下的人发出的气味很可怕，你知道，他们让人们躺在那里。

It's still hard for me to believe that this actually happened, and it is still hard for me to believe that I went through that.

我仍然很难相信这真的发生了，我仍然很难相信我经历过那件事。

I don't think that the U.S. Army had ever faced a foe quite like this before.

我认为美国陆军以前从未遇到过这样的敌人。

The Japanese Imperial Army was steeped in a very different tradition and they had a very different conception of what it was to be a prisoner.

日本皇军有着截然不同的传统，他们对战俘的概念也截然不同。

They believed that it was the ultimate shame, to fall into enemy hands, you were supposed to save the last round of ammunition for yourself, under no circumstances put yourself in a situation where you would be taken....

他们认为落入敌人手中是最大的耻辱，你应该为自己保留最后一轮弹药，无论如何都不要让自己陷入被抓的境地……

This attitude influenced the way they, in turn, treated American POWs.

这种态度反过来影响了他们对待美国战俘的方式。

They were beneath contempt.

他们受到蔑视。

By May of 1942 the invader's victory was complete.

到 1942 年 5 月，侵略者已经取得了彻底的胜利。

The Philippines was now a part of the far-flung Japanese Empire.

菲律宾现在是幅员辽阔的日本帝国的一部分。

Just six months into the war, an entire army had been captured.

战争刚开始六个月，整个军队就被俘虏了。

Official telegrams began arriving at homes across America.

官方电报开始送达美国各地的千家万户。

"The Secretary of War regrets to inform you that your son is now a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army.

“战争部长遗憾地通知您，您的儿子现在是日本帝国陆军的俘虏。

The government has no information on the condition of such prisoners." The wires' formal language gave no hint of the continuing horrors of captivity.

政府没有关于这些囚犯状况的信息。”电报的正式语言没有透露出囚禁的持续恐怖的迹象。

"Prisoners, it is regrettable that we were unable to kill each of you on the battlefield, it is only through our generosity that you are alive at all.

“囚犯们，很遗憾我们没能在战场上杀死你们每一个人，正是因为我们的慷慨，你们才得以活着。

Japanese commandants often addressed their American prisoners as they arrived at the camps.

当美国战俘抵达集中营时，日本指挥官经常向他们讲话。

We will treat you as we see fit.

我们将按照我们认为合适的方式对待您。

If you live or die is of no concern to us.

你的生死与我们无关。

Soon, your loved ones will no longer weep for you and your country will forget your names."

很快，你所爱的人将不再为你哭泣，你的国家将忘记你的名字。”

I can visualize the camp almost as if it were yesterday.

我可以想象这个营地几乎就像昨天一样。

I can see the, the barbed wire, the barracks, the streets.

我可以看到铁丝网、军营、街道。

They put us in groups of 10 and they said if one man escaped they'll kill the other nine.

他们把我们分成 10 个人一组，他们说如果一个人逃跑了，他们就会杀死另外九个人。

Well, that's probably what kept me all the time in that prison camp, because I would not have stayed if, if it was just my life, but, I couldn't see takin' nine other people's lives for my freedom.

好吧，这可能就是让我一直呆在战俘营里的原因，因为如果这只是我的生命的话，我就不会留下来，但是，我无法看到为了我的自由而夺取其他九个人的生命。

A few inmates with medical training organized makeshift clinics, but the crowded prison camps quickly became breeding grounds for malaria and other diseases.

一些接受过医疗培训的囚犯组织了临时诊所，但拥挤的战俘营很快成为疟疾和其他疾病的滋生地。

There were two types of beriberi.

脚气病有两种类型。

The most painful type was dry beriberi.

最痛苦的是干脚气病。

It was terrific pain in the feet.

脚痛得厉害。

With wet beriberi, your legs would swell up, probably twice the diameter or more and, finally, just stomach would, would be bloated.

患有湿脚气，你的腿会肿胀，可能是直径的两倍或更多，最后，只有胃会肿胀。

If it got too bloated it would affect your heart and stop it.

如果它太肿，就会影响你的心脏并使其停止跳动。

We had what was know as a, a Zero Ward.

我们有所谓的零病房。

Your friends just ended up there, you didn't get a chance to see them anymore.

你的朋友刚刚到达那里，你再也没有机会见到他们了。

The burial detail started there.

埋葬细节从那里开始。

In the first months at a camp called Cabanatuan disease and malnutrition often claimed a dozen prisoners a night.

在被称为甲万那端 (Cabanatuan) 的集中营的头几个月里，疾病和营养不良常常每晚夺去十几名囚犯的生命。

The survivors did their best to turn the compound into an orderly community.

幸存者尽最大努力将大院变成一个有序的社区。

You just had to keep your little world together.

你只需要让你的小世界保持在一起。

You had communications with all your buddies and all your friends and so forth.

您与所有的好友和所有的朋友等等进行了交流。

The main meeting place and the assembly place was called Times Square.

主要的聚会地点和集会地点被称为时代广场。

And the two big avenues that we had that was running North and South was Broadway, which was the main one and the second one was Fifth Avenue and they were all named by New Yorkers, of course.

我们拥有的南北两条大道是百老汇，这是主要的一条，第二条是第五大道，当然，它们都是由纽约人命名的。

Holding on to a sense of order was one more means of survival.

保持秩序感是另一种生存手段。

Keeping track of the time of day became an obsession.

记录一天中的时间成为一种痴迷。

We had a system of telling time in prison camp; the Navy had set up a bell.

我们在战俘营里有一套计时系统；海军已经竖起了钟。

Every half-hour the Navy would give the time on the bell, like, one bell, two bells, three bells, you know.

每半小时，海军都会按响钟报时，比如一响铃、二响铃、三响铃，你知道。

No, none of us knew Navy time and so he'd go bong, bong, bong, and, after he was all through with it everybody'd yell "What time is it?" And, of course the guy'd try to yell back because he was the only one that had a clock.

不，我们都不知道海军时间，所以他会“嘭、嘭、嘭”，等他说完之后，每个人都会大喊“现在几点了？”当然，那家伙会试图喊回去，因为他是唯一有时钟的人。

While the prisoners marked the hours, the war expanded across the Pacific.

当囚犯们在计时时，战争已经蔓延到了整个太平洋。

Within a year, revitalized American forces had defeated the Japanese at Midway, at Guadalcanal, and at a dozen other battles.

一年之内，重振旗鼓的美军在中途岛、瓜达尔卡纳尔岛以及其他十几场战役中击败了日本人。

But the Japanese grip on the Philippines remained solid.

但日本对菲律宾的控制依然牢固。

You'd stand there for hours, hours after hours, trying to get water.

你会在那里站几个小时，几个小时又几个小时，试图取水。

I guess I was in better shape than the rest of them, but I would line up for other people, and I would fill their canteen and I'd take a sip of it, then I'd give it them, and then I'd take their canteen and get back in line again.

我想我的身体状况比其他人好，但我会为其他人排队，我会填满他们的水壶，我会喝一口，然后我会给他们，然后我会拿走他们的水壶，然后再次排队。

The food was terrible and they give us a, a little lugow , we call it lugow and that was a little rice mixed with water and the worms and the, and the bugs, and the weevils would float to the top.

食物很糟糕，他们给了我们一点卢戈，我们称之为卢戈，那是一点米和水混合，还有蠕虫和虫子，象鼻虫会浮到顶部。

But there was people who'd go through that line, and they'd look at it and they'd say, "I'm not eating this stuff, I'd rather die, than eat this stuff," and they'd just dump theirs in a barrel or whatever it was, and they died.

但有些人走过那条线，他们看着它，然后说，“我不吃这些东西，我宁愿死，也不愿吃这些东西”，然后他们就把自己的东西倒进桶里或者其他什么东西里，然后他们就死了。

All the prisoners at Cabanatuan were forced to work.

甲万那端的所有囚犯都被迫工作。

Breaking rocks or repairing roads in the hot sun was part of the discipline of captivity.

在烈日下敲碎岩石或修路是圈养纪律的一部分。

I was young and I didn't think I had to do what they told me to do.

我还年轻，我不认为我必须做他们告诉我做的事。

And I was still pissed off at them because of what they done at Pearl.

因为他们在珍珠岛所做的事情，我仍然对他们很生气。

And, so, to me, they were deadly enemies.

因此，对我来说，他们是死敌。

And, I just could not bring myself to do what they told me to do, and the sergeant kept telling me, Bob, for Christ sake, listen to them, do what they tell you.

而且，我就是无法让自己去做他们告诉我做的事，中士一直告诉我，鲍勃，看在上帝的份上，听他们的，做他们告诉你的事。

I'd say, "Sarge, I can't do it." So, consequently, I'd get beat up.

我会说：“长官，我做不到。”所以，结果，我会被殴打。

When I would see somebody being tortured or abused, I had mixed emotions, one was anger, and, two was fear; would I be in the same situation minutes, hours, or days from then?

当我看到别人被折磨、虐待的时候，我的心情很复杂，一是愤怒，二是恐惧；从那时起几分钟、几小时或几天后我会遇到同样的情况吗？

Would I get the same treatment?

我会得到同样的待遇吗？

But I was intensely angered at that, that they would treat another human being that way.

但我对此感到非常愤怒，他们会这样对待另一个人。

I was under the impression that my family figured I was dead.

我的印象是我的家人认为我已经死了。

We really felt that the Army had wrote us off.

我们真的觉得军队已经把我们注销了。

We were expendable.

我们是可消耗的。

These motion pictures...were seized from the Japs.

这些电影……是从日本人手中缴获的。

How were the prisoners treated?

囚犯受到怎样的待遇？

For a long time the story was concealed.

很长一段时间，这个故事被掩盖了。

In January of 1944, after almost two years' captivity, newsreels brought the Bataan prisoners' plight home to America.

1944 年 1 月，在被囚禁近两年之后，新闻影片将巴丹囚犯的困境带回了美国。

These unspeakable atrocities make me, and I should think, every other American want to fight this war with grimmer determination than ever before.

这些难以形容的暴行让我，而且我应该认为，所有其他美国人都想以比以往任何时候都更加坚定的决心来打这场战争。

We mothers are all pretty bitter, and we hope that the American government will send help over to MacArthur and get the remainder of the boys out just as soon as possible.

我们母亲都很痛苦，希望美国政府能够向麦克阿瑟提供帮助，尽快把剩下的男孩救出来。

A rescue wouldn't be a job for MacArthur but for an unlikely band of army volunteers.

救援工作不是麦克阿瑟的工作，而是一群不太可能的军队志愿者的工作。

Back in January of 1943 a group of soldiers had set out from California to the South Pacific.

1943 年 1 月，一群士兵从加利福尼亚出发前往南太平洋。

Their gear was as old as the army itself.

他们的装备和军队本身一样古老。

These were mule skinners, big men from farms and ranches across America.

这些人是来自美国各地农场和牧场的骡子剥皮工。

They had trained with their mules, packing heavy guns up the Colorado Rockies.

他们用骡子进行训练，在科罗拉多落基山脉上装载重型枪支。

But, when the men and animals arrived in the Pacific there was change of plans.

但是，当人和动物抵达太平洋时，计划发生了变化。

We went over to Australia, couldn't put mules off there, so we went on to New Guinea.

我们去了澳大利亚，无法把骡子赶走，所以我们继续前往新几内亚。

For some reason, we heard they were going to do away with the mules and send them to India, and they were going to make Rangers out of us.

出于某种原因，我们听说他们要废除骡子并将它们送到印度，他们要把我们变成流浪者。

And they sent us a, a man named Colonel Mucci, and Colonel Mucci trained us.

他们给我们派了一个名叫穆奇上校的人，穆奇上校训练了我们。

Colonel Henry Mucci was ordered to transform these mule skinners into Army Rangers, jungle commandos, able the think on their feet and survive behind enemy lines.

亨利·穆奇上校奉命将这些骡皮工转变为陆军游骑兵、丛林突击队，能够快速思考并在敌后生存。

His men dubbed Mucci "little MacArthur".

他的手下称穆奇为“小麦克阿瑟”。

He liked to be seen smoking a pipe, just like the general.

他喜欢被人看到抽烟斗，就像将军一样。

The hot-tempered son of an Italian-American horse trader, Mucci could out-run and out march his men.

穆奇是一位意大利裔美国马商的儿子，脾气暴躁，他跑得比他的部下快，行军也比他的部下快。

Of course, he did everything to run us to death, made us cross rivers on ropes.

当然，他想尽一切办法把我们逼死，让我们用绳子过河。

We had to swim with packs on our back.

我们必须背着背包去游泳。

We had obstacle course.

我们有障碍训练场。

You could approach him with a knife in your hand and you couldn't, couldn't get to him, he would throw you on your back, he was a judo expert.

你可以手里拿着刀接近他，但你不能，不能接近他，他会把你扔在你的背上，他是柔道专家。

But he worked us so hard that sometimes, I'd think, "I hate that man." I'd double-time back to my camp and say, "You can't kill me; I'll do more than you can give me."

但他为我们工作如此努力，有时我会想，“我讨厌那个人。”我会两次回到我的营地并说：“你杀不了我；我会做比你能给我的更多的事情。”

We were volunteers in reverse because if we didn't want to stay he would transfer us out.

相反，我们是志愿者，因为如果我们不想留下来，他就会把我们转出去。

And there were others that he transferred that he didn't want around.

还有一些他不想要的东西被他转移了。

There wasn't anything that he would ask you to do, that he wouldn't do himself.

没有什么是他要求你做的，他自己不会做的。

He was, he, really a, a all-out, oh, in Army terms, a "all-out Joe."

他，他，真的是一个全力以赴的，哦，用陆军的话来说，一个“全力以赴的乔”。

Under Mucci's supervision the 6th Ranger Battalion became, a strong, flexible force ready to take on special assignments, but stationed in New Guinea, they had yet to get a mission which would fully test their abilities.

在穆奇的领导下，第6游骑兵营成为一支强大而灵活的部队，随时准备执行特殊任务，但驻扎在新几内亚，他们还没有接到充分考验他们能力的任务。

That would come in the Philippines.

这将发生在菲律宾。

The Japanese allowed us to send cards out occasionally and it had "MY HEALTH IS: GOOD, FAIR, OR POOR.

日本人允许我们偶尔寄出卡片，卡片上写着“我的健康状况是：好、一般或差”。

" A multiple choice card that you were allowed to send home.

“一张允许您寄回家的多项选择卡。

The Japanese tried to prevent any war news from reaching the camp, but the prisoners managed to pull an end run around the information blackout.

日本人试图阻止任何战争消息传到集中营，但囚犯们设法绕过了信息封锁。

They were fixing Japanese radios, and they would take certain parts out and tell the Japanese, these parts need replacing.

他们正在修理日本收音机，他们会取出某些零件并告诉日本人，这些零件需要更换。

And it was up to the Japanese to get those parts.

而这些零件的获得则取决于日本人。

Well, the Japanese never asked for those parts back.

好吧，日本人从未要求归还这些零件。

And, if you get enough parts, you can make a radio, and that's exactly what they did.

而且，如果你得到足够的零件，你就可以制造一台收音机，而这正是他们所做的。

This radio was built inside of a canteen.

这台收音机建在食堂内。

We knew about D-Day long before the Japanese did.

我们比日本人更早知道诺曼底登陆。

It was listened to, probably, every night and the news would be disseminated to us either the next day or the day after.

可能每天晚上都会有人收听，第二天或后天就会向我们传播新闻。

We knew they had landed on Lingayen Gulf, the, we, we knew when the Leyte Battle had happened.

我们知道他们已经登陆林加延湾，我们知道莱特岛海战何时发生。

At Leyte in October, 1944, General MacArthur led a huge force back to the Philippines.

1944 年 10 月，麦克阿瑟将军在莱特岛率领大军返回菲律宾。

Over 700 ships took part in the invasion, the greatest fleet ever to sail the Pacific.

超过 700 艘船只参加了这次入侵，这是太平洋上有史以来最强大的舰队。

When the Americans started coming back, why, the planes flew right over the camp, and you could start hoping again.

当美国人开始回来时，为什么，飞机飞过营地上空，你可以再次开始希望。

But the American landings came nowhere near the prison camps.

但美军的登陆地点离战俘营很远。

The fighting was hundreds of miles south.

战斗发生在以南数百英里处。

After two and a half years, the liberation of the POWs would still have to wait.

两年半后，战俘的解放仍需等待。

The Japanese Army realized that the Americans were coming and the battle was turning very much against them.

日本陆军意识到美国人即将到来，而且战局正在向他们不利的方向发展。

They had to do something quickly with these American POWs.

他们必须尽快对这些美国战俘采取行动。

We later were able to unearth some documents...that showed that there was a specific order that came from the high command that required that the commandants of these various camps liquidate any, any and all American prisoners, rather than let them fall back into American hands.

我们后来找到了一些文件……这表明最高指挥部下达了一项具体命令，要求这些各个集中营的指挥官清算任何、任何和所有美国囚犯，而不是让他们重新落入美国人手中。

In December, 1944 on Palawan Island, southwest of Bataan, a group of American POWs heard an air raid alarm ring out.

1944 年 12 月，在巴丹西南的巴拉望岛，一群美国战俘听到空袭警报响起。

They leapt for their trenches.

他们跳向战壕。

But on this day there was no air raid.

但这一天并没有发生空袭。

Instead, their trenches were transformed into fiery graves as the Japanese guards destroyed the 150 prisoners in an infamous atrocity.

相反，日本看守在臭名昭著的暴行中摧毁了 150 名囚犯，他们的战壕变成了燃烧的坟墓。

We all knew about Palawan, We got that on the radio.

我们都知道巴拉望岛，我们从广播中得知。

It was in the back of our minds that the Japanese are going to kill us one of these days.

在我们的内心深处，日本人总有一天会杀了我们。

They're not going to let us go home and tell our story.

他们不会让我们回家讲述我们的故事。

A few weeks after the Palawan massacre the American Army landed at the Lingayen Gulf and began a slow advance on the POW camp at Cabanatuan, still deep in Japanese territory.

巴拉望岛大屠杀几周后，美国陆军在林加延湾登陆，并开始向仍在日本领土深处的甲万那端战俘营缓慢推进。

The army knew that the 500 remaining American prisoners might now be in grave danger.

军队知道剩下的 500 名美国囚犯现在可能处于严重危险之中。

Col.

上校

Mucci's Rangers would have to cross through enemy lines and reach Cabanatuan before another atrocity could occur.

穆奇的游骑兵必须穿越敌军防线并到达甲万那端，否则另一场暴行可能会发生。

The Camp at Cabanatuan lay thirty miles behind the lines.

甲万那端的营地位于战线后方三十英里处。

A daring, covert rescue was an assignment Mucci's Rangers had been born to attempt.

穆奇的流浪者队生来就是为了尝试一次大胆、秘密的救援而执行的任务。

With only hours to plan the mission, the eccentric colonel chose, as his Number Two, Captain Robert Prince.

这位古怪的上校只用了几个小时来计划这次任务，他选择了罗伯特·普林斯上尉作为他的二号人物。

He seemed to like me, and I'm not a hard guy, but I, uh, he thought I could handle, handle the duties of a company commander and I was very pleased with that and I wanted to stay with him.

他似乎很喜欢我，而且我不是一个硬汉，但是我，呃，他认为我可以处理，处理连长的职责，我对此非常满意，我想和他在一起。

Prince was s-so sober-minded, and so quiet, and so, um, calm -- calm, very, very calm.

普林斯头脑非常清醒，非常安静，所以，嗯，冷静——冷静，非常非常冷静。

Captain Prince devised a route to the POWs.

普林斯上尉设计了一条通往战俘的路线。

The 125 Rangers could begin a march from their advanced base at 2:00 PM and reach the camp twelve hours later.

125 名游骑兵可以在下午 2:00 从他们的先进基地开始行军，并在 12 小时后到达营地。

Along the way they would be joined by other units.

一路上，其他单位也会加入他们的行列。

We had the Rangers, we had the Alamo Scouts, we had the Filipino guerrillas, the Filipino civilians, who hid us -- all had to contribute to make this thing work.

我们有游骑兵，我们有阿拉莫侦察兵，我们有菲律宾游击队，还有隐藏我们的菲律宾平民——所有人都必须为这件事做出贡献。

My company was lined up and I said, "I'm going to turn around, but, I want every man that wants to go on the raid to step one step forward," and I turned back around and there was, everybody was still in line so they had all stepped forward.

我的连队已经排好了队，我说，“我要转身，但是，我希望每个想要参加突袭的人都向前迈出一步，”然后我转过身来，每个人都还在排队，所以他们都向前迈了一步。

It was very, very low tech.

这是非常非常低科技的。

They got the mission and, within hours, they're marching towards their destination

他们接到了任务，几个小时内，他们就向目的地进发了

We knew that we had about thirty miles to march.

我们知道我们还有大约三十英里的路程。

The thing that bothered us, more than anything, as we went through those different villages, somebody might tip you off, you know.

最让我们困扰的事情是，当我们穿过那些不同的村庄时，有人可能会向你举报，你知道。

But those people, Filipinos, were loyal, because, you know, just one slip of the tongue could have meant suicide.

但这些人，菲律宾人，是忠诚的，因为，你知道，只要一失言就可能意味着自杀。

Each one was given their choice of weapon.

每个人都可以选择自己的武器。

I preferred the semi-automatic, because that's what I trained with and that was a hell of a good weapon for hip shooting or anyway you want to do it.

我更喜欢半自动，因为那是我训练用的，对于臀部射击或任何你想做的事情来说，这是一个非常好的武器。

We took bazookas, in case we had to take out a tank.

我们带了火箭筒，以防我们不得不干掉坦克。

The rest of it was small arms.

其余的都是小型武器。

Tommy guns, M-1 rifles, carbines.

汤米枪、M-1 步枪、卡宾枪。

All in all, we had a lot of firepower in just this small group.

总而言之，我们这一小群人的火力就很强。

We had two guerrilla captains with us, Captain Pajota and Captain Joson, each having about a 125 to 150 men.

我们有两名游击队队长，帕乔塔队长和乔森队长，每人都有大约 125 到 150 人。

They were from this area and they knew the people, they knew the country, and they had guides for us.

他们来自这个地区，他们了解这里的人民，他们了解这个国家，并且他们为我们提供了导游。

But Captain Pajota's spies had just learned that as many as 8,000 Japanese soldiers had moved near the camp.

但帕约塔上尉的间谍刚刚得知，多达 8000 名日本士兵已转移到营地附近。

They were bivouacked along the river and inside the prison.

他们沿河和监狱内宿营。

The Guerrilla commander believed that most of the enemy would be pulling out over night.

游击队指挥官相信大部分敌人会在夜间撤出。

Pajota wanted Col.

帕乔塔想要上校。

Mucci to postpone the raid.

穆奇推迟了突袭。

Colonel Mucci didn't want to postpone it, you know, he wanted to go.

穆奇上校不想推迟，你知道，他想去。

Pajota said, "Are you committing suicide?" And, Mucci, being also emotional, flared, and calmed himself down very quickly, and he said, "Of course not."

帕乔塔问道：“你想自杀吗？”而穆奇同样情绪激动，怒火中烧，很快就平静下来，说道：“当然不是。”

Any delay would endanger the prisoners Mucci was trying to rescue.

任何拖延都会危及穆奇试图营救的囚犯。

But, he, then he listened very carefully to what Pajota had to say, and then paid attention again to what his Scouts had said, and recognized that he had to make some changes, and the radio message was sent out right away that there's a 24-hour delay.

但是他,然后他非常仔细的听了帕霍塔要说的话,然后又注意了他的侦察兵说的话,认识到他必须做一些改变,无线电消息马上就发出来了,有24小时的延误,.

In that 24 hours, the Alamo Scouts did a real fine job of, "casing the joint," I guess is what you'd call it, and came back with all the information we needed on where the prisoners were, where the Japanese quarters were.

在那 24 小时里，阿拉莫侦察兵做得非常出色，“给关节加了外壳”，我想这就是你们所说的，并带回了我们需要的所有信息，包括囚犯在哪里、日军宿舍在哪里。

It was drawn in the dirt is where, the only place we had to work in.

它是在泥土中绘制的，这是我们唯一必须工作的地方。

We laid it out, where our approach would be with C Company and where the F Company platoon would go up this dry wash behind the prisoners' compound.

我们安排好了，C连的进场位置是F连排的位置，战俘营后面的干洗地是F连排的位置。

The men of F Company would be the last to get into position.

F连的人将是最后一个就位的。

It would be their job to commence the firing.

开始射击是他们的工作。

We wanted to be there at 7:30, so, we figured we had plenty of time.

我们想在 7:30 到达那里，所以我们认为我们有足够的时间。

Late in the afternoon, the Rangers left their hiding places and crossed the shallow rivers surrounding Cabanatuan.

下午晚些时候，游骑兵离开了他们的藏身之处，穿过了甲万那端周围的浅河。

Juan Pajota's hunch had been right.

胡安·帕约塔的预感是正确的。

Most of the enemy seemed to have pulled out.

大多数敌人似乎已经撤退了。

The Guerrillas slipped from village to village gathering dozens of water buffalo carts.

游击队聚集了数十辆水牛车，从一个村庄溜到另一个村庄。

Farmers lent their only Carabao to help rescue the prisoners unable to walk to safety.

农民们借出了他们唯一的水牛来帮助营救无法行走至安全地带的囚犯。

As the sun began to set Guerrillas positioned machine guns along the river.

当太阳开始落山时，游击队沿河部署机枪。

In addition to the guards in the camp, eight hundred Japanese were resting less than a mile from Cabanatuan.

除了营地里的守卫之外，八百名日本人也在距离甲万那端不到一英里的地方休息。

The Filipinos would need to keep these troops from crossing to the camp once the firing started.

一旦射击开始，菲律宾人需要阻止这些部队进入营地。

We are protecting the road in case the Japanese will attack.

我们正在保护道路，以防日本人进攻。

If the Japanese knows about it and they raided it, they, they can go easily right there and the raid will, will just will fail.

如果日本人知道了并袭击了它，他们可以轻松地前往那里，但袭击将会失败。

They will all be slaughtered in there.

他们都会被屠杀在那里。

Just the gossip of any one person in a village could have made a difference.

村里任何一个人的闲言碎语都可能产生影响。

How this didn't reach at least one Japanese unit, I don't know.

我不知道为什么这没有到达至少一个日本单位。

With that troop movement, it seems like somebody would have gotten a piece of information, but they didn't, and that was a blessing I think more than a tactical thing.

通过这次部队调动，似乎有人会获得一些信息，但他们没有，我认为这是一种祝福，而不是战术上的事情。

The official map showed the camp surrounded by high vegetation.

官方地图显示营地周围环绕着高大的植被。

But just hours before the raid, new aerial photos revealed only flat, dry rice paddies with no place to hide.

但就在袭击发生前几个小时，新的航拍照片显示，只有平坦、干燥的稻田，无处可藏。

The Rangers would be fully exposed as they crawled toward the prison fence.

当游骑兵爬向监狱围栏时，他们将完全暴露在外。

Those rice paddies, just clay-like, just as hard as concrete almost.

那些稻田，就像粘土一样，几乎和混凝土一样坚硬。

We just had to put our guns in front of us and just crawled an, an inch or two at the time.

我们只需要把枪放在我们面前，然后爬行一两英寸。

As the men of F Company moved around the side of the camp they found themselves crawling over prisoners' graves.

当 F 连的士兵在营地一侧移动时，他们发现自己正在囚犯的坟墓上爬行。

It was still daylight, it was getting dusk, but it was very obvious that the guard in the tower could see us, if he was looking.

当时还是白天，天色已近黄昏，但很明显，塔楼里的守卫只要注意的话就能看到我们。

As we were crawling, this plane came over and made dives, and, of course, the Japanese were looking up, and they were scared to death of the planes, what he's going to do, thought he was going to crash, maybe.

当我们爬行时，这架飞机过来并俯冲，当然，日本人正在抬头看，他们被飞机吓坏了，他会做什么，以为他可能会坠毁。

The plane was Col.

这架飞机是上校。

Mucci's idea.

穆奇的主意。

He thought it would make a fine distraction as his men approached the camp.

他认为当他的部下接近营地时，这会很好地分散注意力。

Somehow he had gotten the Air Corps to go along.

不知何故，他让空军同意了。

Everybody's interest was on him, and that allowed us to get into the ditch, just across the road from the camp.

每个人都对他感兴趣，这使我们能够进入营地对面的沟渠。

Captain Prince's main assault unit lay waiting for F Company to make its way to the rear of the camp.

普林斯上尉的主力突击部队正在等待 F 连前往营地后方。

We heard all kind of bells ringing and we said that we've been spotted.

我们听到各种铃声响起，我们说我们被发现了。

And one lieutenant almost jumped up and somebody put him down.

一名中尉差点跳起来，有人把他放下了。

And, finally, nothing happened; we knew to go on.

最后，什么也没发生。我们知道要继续下去。

It hadn't been a Japanese alarm bell, but just a POW ringing the time.

这不是日本的警钟，而是战俘敲响的时间。

Inside Cabanatuan the prisoners and their guards knew nothing of the raid.

在甲万那端，囚犯和他们的看守对这次突袭一无所知。

I had just finished cleaning up all the pots and pans and caldron and washing them and getting them ready for breakfast.

我刚刚清理完所有的锅碗瓢盆，清洗它们，准备吃早餐。

There were four of us sitting around a makeshift table, smoking our last cigarette.

我们四个人围坐在一张临时搭建的桌子旁，抽着最后一根烟。

Zero hour for F Company was supposed to be 7:30, but the moment passed with no shots fired.

F连的零时本应是7点30分，但这一时刻却没有响起任何枪声。

The moon was about to rise.

月亮快要升起来了。

Its light could give away their positions.

它的光芒可能会泄露他们的位置。

It got very, very tense.

气氛变得非常非常紧张。

Many of the Rangers kept looking at Prince, saying, you know, well, we're going to have initiate this thing, this is getting too late -- They didn't really understand it was taking F Company so long to get back to the back and fire the first shot.

许多游骑兵一直看着普林斯，说，你知道，好吧，我们要发起这件事，现在已经太晚了——他们并不真正明白 F 连花了这么长时间才回到后方并开第一枪。

Well, it got up to 7:40, and I was getting a little nervous as to whether to initiate it myself.

嗯，到了7点40分，我开始有点紧张，不知道要不要自己发起。

But, about that time, a guard in the tower in the rear spotted one of F Company's men and shouted an alarm and the second he did, he was dead.

但是，就在那时，后方塔楼的一名守卫发现了 F 连的一名士兵，并大声喊叫，但他刚一发现，就死了。

All I could think of, how in the hell are we going to cook Lugow in the morning if they're shooting up our cookware.

我所能想到的就是，如果他们朝我们的炊具开枪，我们早上怎么给卢戈做饭呢？

We hit the ground, one of my buddies said, "Hey, Bob, what do you, what do you think's going on?" And I said, "Well," I said, "I'm convinced," I says, "The Japanese are coming in here."

我们摔倒在地，我的一个朋友说：“嘿，鲍勃，你怎么办，你认为发生了什么事？”我说，“好吧，”我说，“我确信，”我说，“日本人正在来这里。”

I thought it was a massacre.

我以为这是一场屠杀。

I thought exactly what the Japanese are going to do, they're going to kill everybody because Uncle Sam was getting close.

我确切地想到日本人会做什么，他们会杀死所有人，因为山姆大叔已经很接近了。

Well, I went right behind the people going to the main gate.

好吧，我就跟在去大门的人们后面。

One guy, Richardson, shot the lock off the front gate and went in.

理查森（Richardson）一个人射开了前门的锁，然后走了进去。

I got panicky, I started to run, and I ran into, what I classify, a very, gentle, brick wall.

我惊慌失措，开始奔跑，然后我遇到了，按照我的分类，一堵非常、温和的砖墙。

There was the biggest guy I ever seen in my life standing in front of me.

站在我面前的是我一生中见过的最大的家伙。

He looked like Pancho Villa with the bandoleers of ammunition strapped across his chest.

他看起来就像胸前绑着弹药带的潘乔·维拉。

This Ranger was hollering run for the main gate, the Yanks are here.

这名游骑兵大声喊着向大门跑去，洋基队来了。

My vision, at that time, was pretty well shot.

那时我的视野非常好。

He had to kind of lead me and I helped a couple of other young kids.

他必须引导我，我帮助其他几个小孩。

I run down to my ward to see if everybody was out, and there's three still in there, one didn't have any legs at all, one had one leg, and one had passed out on account of he was a heart patient.

我跑到病房看看是否所有人都出去了，那里还剩下三个人，一个根本没有腿，一个只有一条腿，还有一个因为心脏病患者而昏倒了。

Some big Ranger got a hold of a litter that was hanging up there, and we throw them three people on that litter and away we went.

一些大护林员抓住了挂在那里的担架，我们把三个人扔到担架上，然后我们就走了。

I always had problems walking because of all the beatings I'd taken, I said, "I'm going out of this place, if I have to crawl out." I went out of the camp on my own two feet.

由于遭受过殴打，我走路总是有困难，我说：“如果我必须爬出去，我就要离开这个地方。”我用自己的两只脚走出了营地。

The raid had caught most of the Japanese asleep in their barracks.

这次突袭袭击了大多数在军营里熟睡的日本人。

In minutes, as many as two hundred had been shot.

几分钟之内，就有多达两百人被枪杀。

After the initial surprise, a few of the enemy managed to return fire.

在最初的惊讶之后，一些敌人设法还击。

The Rangers only surgeon was hit.

流浪者队唯一的外科医生被击中。

Ranger Corporal Roy Sweezy was shot, not by the Japanese, but by friendly fire.

游骑兵下士罗伊·斯威齐不是被日本人射杀的，而是被友军射击的。

Captain Prince said, "You be the last man out; I want you to stick your head in every shack you can find and see if anybody's left." And I did that expecting to get shot.

普林斯船长说：“你是最后一个出去的人；我要你把头探进你能找到的每一个小屋里，看看是否还有人。”我这样做是因为我以为自己会被枪杀。

The bullets were flying from down the road.

子弹从路边飞来。

I went out with my arm over my face just in case I got hit, it'd be not in the face, but in the arm, but made it pretty safely.

我出去时用手臂捂住脸，以防万一被击中，它不是在脸上，而是在手臂上，但还是很安全。

When we got to the Pampanga River, I said, "What are you going to do with all those sick people that can't walk?" He said, "Don't worry, we got carabao carts."I think we all had a fear of the Japanese still catching up with us.

当我们到达邦板牙河时，我说：“你打算怎么处理那些不能走路的病人呢？”他说：“别担心，我们有水牛车。”我想我们都担心日本人仍然追上我们。

The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp, and where we were operating.

游击队是我们在卡布河的侧翼保护，距离我们的营地和行动地点不超过一英里。

There was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge.

日本军队数量相当大，但帕乔塔和他的手下杀死了所有能看到河上和过桥的东西。

They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us.

他们是让这件事对我们来说不那么困难的人。

Only 22 minutes after the first shot was fired all 513 POWs were out of the camp.

第一声枪响后仅 22 分钟，所有 513 名战俘就全部离开了营地。

Each carabao cart was loaded and set out on the 30-mile journey to the American lines.

每辆水牛车都装满货物，踏上 30 英里的旅程，前往美国边境。

As dawn broke, the mile long column rolled across the lines--out of enemy territory.

黎明破晓时，一英里长的纵队冲过防线，冲出敌方领土。

I don't think I realized that I was fully freed until about 10:00 in the morning.

我想直到早上 10:00 左右我才意识到自己完全自由了。

They had a, an American flag draped over a bush at the side of the road.

他们在路边的灌木丛上悬挂着一面美国国旗。

I saw it, and I looked around, and I don't think there was a dry eye.

我看到了，环顾四周，我认为没有人干眼。

Every one of the surviving prisoners had been freed.

所有幸存的囚犯都被释放了。

It was the morning of January 31, 1945.

那是 1945 年 1 月 31 日早上。

Mucci's Rangers had completed their mission.

穆奇的流浪者队已经完成了他们的使命。

People ask me, they say, "Who do you think were the heroes that night?" I say, "Everybody, because everybody done their job, and they done a good job." Well, that's a day I, a night I've always claimed that's the night I was reborn -- that's my birthday.

人们问我，他们说：“你认为那天晚上谁是英雄？”我说：“每个人，因为每个人都完成了自己的工作，而且做得很好。”嗯，那是我的一天，我一直声称那是我重生的那一夜——那是我的生日。

A week after the rescue, the prisoners shipped out for home.

获救一周后，囚犯们被运回家。

We passed under the Golden Gate Bridge and the fireboats were spraying water and all I could think of, "My God, they're wasting all that water!" When we got the pier, everyone of us bent down and kissed the earth and then we really let out an exhale and said, "We're finally home."

我们从金门大桥下经过，消防船在喷水，我满脑子都是：“天哪，他们浪费了那么多水！”到了码头，我们每个人都弯下腰，亲吻着大地，然后才真正长出了一口气，说道：“我们终于到家了。”

We flew across from San Francisco, all the way to Chicago.

我们从旧金山飞过，一路飞往芝加哥。

My whole family was there my dad, my stepmother, my girlfriend and her mother, my sisters were there, my brother-in-laws, uncles, aunts and there's just one big clapping when I just got off the airplane.

我的全家都在那里，我的爸爸、我的继母、我的女朋友和她的母亲、我的姐妹们、我的姐夫、叔叔、阿姨都在那里，当我刚下飞机时，只有一阵热烈的掌声。

The Tribune took me over to the airplane again with my girlfriend, and I gave her a kiss, and that was in the newspaper.

《论坛报》再次带我和女朋友一起上了飞机，我吻了她，这件事登上了报纸。

"HERO RETURNS."

“英雄归来。”

The prisoners of Cabanatuan now were home, but the war in the Pacific continued until the Japanese surrender in August, 1945.

甲万那端的囚犯现在已经回家了，但太平洋战争一直持续到 1945 年 8 月日本投降。

Of the 17,000 Americans soldiers captured in the Philippines, one third never returned.

在菲律宾被俘的 17,000 名美国士兵中，有三分之一再也没有回来。