D-Day
All was quiet.
一切都很安静。
The ships were gone.
船不见了。
The planes were gone.
飞机不见了。
The roads were empty, the tanks were gone.
道路空无一人，坦克也不见了。
And all these hundreds of Americans and that that had been milling 'round our city were gone.
所有这数百名美国人以及那些一直在我们城市周围闲逛的人都消失了。
And then this silence and the waiting.
然后就是这种沉默和等待。
On the evening of June 6, 1944, over five thousand ships carrying 150,000 soldiers, the greatest armada ever assembled, left southern England for the invasion of Normandy.
1944 年 6 月 6 日晚，超过 5000 艘船只载着 15 万名士兵，这是有史以来最强大的无敌舰队，离开英格兰南部，前往入侵诺曼底。
In the morning, across the English Channel, a great battle would begin for the liberation of Europe.
早上，横跨英吉利海峡，一场解放欧洲的伟大战役即将打响。
England, the spring of 1943.
英国，1943 年春天。
The American ships began to arrive in great numbers.
美国船只开始大量抵达。
Some had seen combat in North Africa and Sicily, but most were untested, fresh from the training camps of North America.
有些人曾在北非和西西里岛参加过战斗，但大多数都未经考验，刚从北美训练营出来。
They were here to join an Allied army to become part of the largest invasion force in history.
他们来这里是为了加入盟军，成为历史上最大的入侵部队的一部分。
Seeing them, the British were encouraged by their numbers.
看到他们，英国人对他们的人数感到鼓舞。
The island had been at war for four long years and now the Americans had arrived.
该岛已经经历了四年的战争，现在美国人已经抵达。
The war had been going since '39.
战争从39年就开始了。
They were tired.
他们累了。
Their soldiers had been fighting a very long and difficult war.
他们的士兵正在进行一场漫长而艰难的战争。
It did not take long for a visiting American to become aware of the nearness of war.
没过多久，来访的美国人就意识到战争迫在眉睫。
The most devastating effect was probably on the services who were away, came on leave and no house, no wife, no children, and they hadn't been told.
最具破坏性的影响可能是那些离开、休假、没有房子、没有妻子、没有孩子的部队，而且他们没有被告知。
On January 16, 1944, General Dwight D.
1944 年 1 月 16 日，德怀特 D.
Eisenhower arrived in England to assume supreme command of the Allied expeditionary forces.
艾森豪威尔抵达英国，接管盟军远征军的最高指挥权。
He had not led troops to combat, but he possessed an extraordinary talent for planning and military diplomacy.
他没有带兵打仗，但却拥有非凡的谋划和军事外交才能。
He's really chairman of this great Allied committee, marvelous at that.
他确实是这个伟大的盟军委员会的主席，这真是太棒了。
His initial move was to appoint his deputies, all British, but he was careful to keep by his side his most trusted field commander, the American General Omar M.
他最初的举动是任命全是英国人的副手，但他小心翼翼地让他最信任的战地指挥官、美国将军奥马尔·M·布什留在自己身边。
Bradley, a solid, able, self-effacing soldier.
布拉德利是一位坚强、能干、谦逊的士兵。
If you look at the team of extrovert prima donnas he was trying to run, the way he kept them all together was quite an astonishing thing to-- I mean, you couldn't have a more prima donna-ish man than Field Marshal Montgomery -- a bloody good soldier, but he was a very difficult man.
如果你看看他试图领导的一支由外向的假面女郎组成的团队，你会发现他将他们聚集在一起的方式是一件相当令人惊讶的事情——我的意思是，你不可能找到比蒙哥马利元帅更假面的人了——一个非常好的士兵，但他是一个非常难相处的人。
Eisenhower faced a task of magnitude and hazard never previously attempted.
艾森豪威尔面临着一项前所未有的艰巨任务和危险任务。
Weapon for weapon, tank for tank, save transport and artillery, the Germans outclassed his army, an army he would have to move up to 100 miles across the English Channel and storm a heavily fortified coastline.
武器对武器，坦克对坦克，除了运输和火炮之外，德国人击败了他的军队，他的军队必须跨越英吉利海峡100英里，猛攻戒备森严的海岸线。
Added to this, he would have to endure a difficult British commander and keep a balanced mind toward his real adversary.
除此之外，他还必须忍受难对付的英国指挥官，并对真正的对手保持平衡的心态。
The man the Allied forces would have to face on the beaches of Normandy was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, one of the most brilliant generals of the war.
盟军在诺曼底海滩上必须面对的对手是埃尔文·隆美尔元帅，他是战争中最杰出的将军之一。
In December of 1943, he was appointed by Hitler to command German army units in northern France, to hurl back the Allies if they landed there.
1943 年 12 月，他被希特勒任命为指挥法国北部的德国军队，负责击退盟军登陆的地方。
Inspecting the huge fortifications at Calais less than 30 miles across the English Channel from Britain, he found the defenses formidable.
他检查了距离英国不到 30 英里的加来的巨大防御工事，发现这里的防御工事十分可怕。
The beaches of Normandy, however, were a different matter.
然而，诺曼底的海滩却是另一回事。
The high tides and treacherous cliffs were to his advantage, but the guns and fortifications at Normandy were too few and far between.
涨潮和危险的悬崖对他来说是有利的，但诺曼底的火炮和防御工事太少而且相隔太远。
Still, Normandy was 70 miles from Britain, and moving an army that distance over difficult seas implied great risks.
尽管如此，诺曼底距离英国有 70 英里，在困难的海域调动一支军队到那么远的距离意味着巨大的风险。
The only hope that Rommel had -- and he knew it -- was to have a force ready to move immediately towards the spot where anybody landed.
隆美尔唯一的希望——他知道这一点——就是有一支部队准备好立即向任何人登陆的地方移动。
He knew that.
他知道这一点。
[voice-over] He immediately ordered the emplacement of tens of thousands of underwater obstacles, and though he intended to inflict heavy casualties on the landing craft, he was convinced success lay in attacking the enemy with armor on the beaches.
【画外音】他立即下令在水下布设数以万计的障碍物，虽然本意是要给登陆艇造成重大伤亡，但他坚信成功在于在海滩上用装甲攻击敌人。
Beaches in England, Scotland and Wales similar to those in Normandy were found for training.
在英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士也找到了与诺曼底类似的海滩进行训练。
Eisenhower and Bradley chose the 29th, 4th and 1st Infantry Divisions to make the initial assault.
艾森豪威尔和布拉德利选择了第29、第4和第1步兵师进行最初的攻击。
There were three divisions that would wage the fight for the first thousand yards.
三个师将在前一千码内展开战斗。
Only one, the 1st Division, had ever been in combat.
只有第一师曾经参加过战斗。
In other parts of Britain, Ranger units trained to destroy coastal gun positions.
在英国其他地区，游骑兵部队接受了摧毁沿海炮阵地的训练。
We climbed all the cliffs of southeast and southwest England.
我们攀登了英格兰东南部和西南部的所有悬崖。
We climbed a lot of cliffs.
我们爬了很多悬崖。
The untried American 101st and the veteran 82nd Airborne were chosen, with the English 6th Airborne, to be the first troops to land in the invasion.
未经考验的美国第 101 空降师和经验丰富的第 82 空降师与英国第 6 空降师被选为入侵行动中第一批登陆的部队。
They were first-class, those 82nd Airborne.
第 82 空降师是一流的。
They were spot on.
他们是当场的。
Much of the success of the first day would depend on the skill and bravery of small groups of men able to take things into their own hands, but there was no mistaking where the advantage of the Allies lay.
第一天的成功在很大程度上取决于能够将事情掌握在自己手中的一小群人的技巧和勇气，但毫无疑问，盟军的优势在哪里。
We just had equipment running out of our ears.
我们的耳朵里的设备刚刚耗尽。
Some of it wasn't as good as the German, but, boy, we had plenty of it.
其中一些不如德国人那么好，但是，天哪，我们有很多。
Half of England was under tarps.
一半的英格兰都被防水布覆盖了。
We like to sank that island.
我们喜欢沉没那个岛。
We had more Americans there than they had British, and they were everywhere.
我们那里的美国人比英国人还多，而且他们无处不在。
And we liked each other and really cared about each other.
我们彼此喜欢并且非常关心彼此。
It's a wonderful counterforce to the terror of being alone in battle.
这是对抗孤身作战的恐惧的绝佳抵抗力。
The man alone in Britain in the spring of 1944 was General George S.
1944 年春天，乔治·S·布什 (George S.
Patton.
巴顿。
He had been assigned to lead an army that did not exist.
他被指派去领导一支并不存在的军队。
And Patton was furious.
巴顿非常愤怒。
Patton was just livid.
巴顿简直气坏了。
Patton was in command of a fictitious army intended to deceive the Germans into believing it was going to invade France at Calais, the shortest distance from Britain, less than 30 miles across the channel from Dover.
巴顿指挥着一支虚构的军队，目的是欺骗德国人，让他们相信他们将在加莱入侵法国，加莱是距离英国最近的地方，距离多佛海峡不到 30 英里。
They actually moved units of a phantom army all 'round England without moving anything.
他们实际上在英格兰各地调动了一支幽灵军队，但没有移动任何东西。
We'd recorded the sound of tanks moving along, the squeaking noises.
我们录制了坦克行驶的声音，吱吱作响的声音。
Our tanks were absolutely marvelous.
我们的坦克绝对棒极了。
They were splendid.
他们太棒了。
Of course, hundreds of lives were depending on this.
当然，数百条生命取决于此。
The Patton deception worked in great part because of what the British had accomplished earlier in the war.
巴顿的欺骗之所以奏效，很大程度上是因为英国人在战争初期所取得的成就。
Behind Blechley House, a Victorian mansion north of London, stood Hut 6.
布莱奇利宅邸（Blechley House）是伦敦北部一座维多利亚风格的宅邸，后面矗立着 6 号小屋。
Here a team of British and American cryptographers deciphered coded messages -- codes the Germans believed unbreakable.
在这里，英国和美国的密码学家团队破译了密码信息——德国人认为牢不可破的密码。
They never suspected it.
他们从来没有怀疑过。
We were doing an enormous amount of eavesdropping.
我们正在进行大量的窃听活动。
We could quite often deliver a signal to Eisenhower, Bradley or whoever within two and a half hours of the time the Germans had sent it up.
我们经常可以在德国人发出信号后的两个半小时内向艾森豪威尔、布拉德利或任何人发出信号。
We had indications where the enemy was, what he was doing, the reaction of Hitler to various things and the arguments going on.
我们掌握了敌人在哪里、他在做什么、希特勒对各种事情的反应以及正在进行的争论的迹象。
We knew almost exactly what they were doing.
我们几乎清楚地知道他们在做什么。
But the Germans were doing things on the Norman beaches the Allies knew little about, and Allied commandos, some of them foreign nationals, were put ashore at night to find out.
但德国人在诺曼海滩上所做的事情盟军却知之甚少，盟军突击队（其中一些是外国人）在夜间被派上岸去查明情况。
We did the one reconnaissance on the English beach and then we did this on Omaha Beach, getting a closer view of what the defenses are looking like.
我们在英国海滩进行了一次侦察，然后又在奥马哈海滩进行了一次侦察，近距离观察了防御工事的情况。
The crucial thing was to check this beach's bearing capacity.
关键是要检查这个海滩的承载能力。
They took infrared pictures while avoiding German patrols.
他们在躲避德国巡逻队的同时拍摄了红外照片。
If one was captured and they discover that you're Hungarian, they hang you on the spot, so that's why I always pretended to be a Welshman.
如果有人被抓了，他们发现你是匈牙利人，他们就会把你当场绞死，所以这就是为什么我总是假装是威尔士人。
We then had to ease our way out, looking as much like seals as possible.
然后我们必须放轻松地出去，尽可能看起来像海豹。
Equally important was the information radioed to Britain at personal risk by the Maquis, the free French who were being supplied by the Allies at night.
同样重要的是马奇游击队冒着个人风险向英国广播的信息，这些游击队是由盟军在夜间提供的自由法国人。
The Maquis would put three lights out and they would stand at the downwind end, usually, and they'd flash the letter of the day, and if they flashed the correct letter, you would drop.
马奇们会熄灭三盏灯，他们通常会站在下风端，他们会闪出当天的字母，如果他们闪出了正确的字母，你就会掉下去。
In the early spring of 1944, orders went out to the Allied airfields to target the French railroads and transportation system, to cut off the Germans at the French beaches from supplies and reinforcements.
1944 年初春，盟军机场接到命令，瞄准法国铁路和运输系统，切断法国海滩上德军的补给和增援。
For 18 months, Allied bombers had concentrated on destroying German industry, often suffering heavy losses.
18 个月来，盟军轰炸机集中摧毁德国工业，常常遭受惨重损失。
Now the heavy bombers joined the mediums in missions against specific targets in France in direct support of the coming invasion.
现在，重型轰炸机与中型轰炸机一起执行针对法国特定目标的任务，以直接支持即将到来的入侵。
They were the horses, we were the hounds.
他们是马，我们是猎犬。
To see them in massive formations was quite staggering.
看到他们排成庞大的队形，真是令人震惊。
It required a degree of flying skill that we never really collected.
它需要一定程度的飞行技巧，但我们从未真正掌握过。
It was so comforting when you come up over the coast and all of a sudden you look out and you see a couple of fighter planes on either side of you.
当你飞越海岸时，突然向外看，你会看到两边有几架战斗机，这真是令人欣慰。
I used to love them.
我曾经很爱他们。
A hundred Messerschmidts attacked Spitfires, the Spitfires would meet them head on.
一百架梅塞施密特攻击喷火式战斗机，喷火式战斗机将与他们正面交锋。
Same thing with P-52's, sometimes P-47's.
P-52 也是如此，有时是 P-47。
They never ran.
他们从来没有跑过。
Before the Allied landing in France, the German air force had to be destroyed.
在盟军登陆法国之前，必须摧毁德国空军。
In the spring of 1944 over Germany, the Allied pilots shot down 1,300 fighters.
1944 年春天，盟军飞行员在德国上空击落了 1,300 架战斗机。
Now the bombers could concentrate on the river bridges and rail yards in an attempt to keep the Germans from moving supplies from Calais to Normandy and from Paris to the sea.
现在，轰炸机可以集中攻击河桥和铁路站场，试图阻止德国人将物资从加来运送到诺曼底，从巴黎运送到海上。
The attack fighters were out to destroy anything that moved.
攻击战斗机的目标是摧毁任何移动的物体。
All over the place, [unintelligible] to Calais, Cape Gris-Nez, all over the place.
到处都是，[听不清]到加莱、格里内斯角，到处都是。
They didn't want to identify where the landings were going to take place.
他们不想确定着陆地点。
We had timetables of trains, which we got from the Resistance.
我们有火车时刻表，是从抵抗组织那里得到的。
You get the hell shot out of you, 50 percent or more.
你会被击中，百分之五十或更多。
We got on very well with the Americans, I will say that.
我会说，我们与美国人相处得很好。
You know the saying about American soldiers in England -- overpaid, oversexed, over here.
你知道关于驻扎在英国的美国士兵的说法——在这里，工资过高、性欲过剩。
They always had a smile on.
他们总是面带微笑。
They were always cheerful and always uplifting -- and saucy.
他们总是开朗、总是令人振奋——而且很俏皮。
I can't remember kissing him, but it was an understood thing that at the end of the war we would be married.
我不记得吻过他，但战争结束后我们会结婚，这是一件可以理解的事情。
There were so many people that met, laughed and parted.
有那么多人相遇、欢笑、离别。
He said when we go in on this invasion, it's going to be the greatest show on earth.
他说，当我们参与这次入侵时，这将是地球上最伟大的表演。
He just laid it on the line and told us what to expect.
他只是挂了电话并告诉我们会发生什么。
And he said, ''Now, however, just remember that,'' he said, ''some of us is going in there and maybe don't come back.
他说，“但是现在，请记住，”他说，“我们中的一些人会进去，也许不会回来。”
You know when you go to war, somebody don't come back.''
你知道当你去打仗时，有人就不会回来了。”
In the last week in May, thousands of American and English troops and vehicles moved to the channel ports.
五月的最后一周，数千名美国和英国军队和车辆开进海峡港口。
It was quite obvious to everyone that something very serious was afoot, 'cause we became saturated with men.
每个人都很明显，一些非常严重的事情正在发生，因为我们的男人已经饱和了。
Just waited, sweated it out.
就这样等着，汗流浃背了。
They were confined and under tight security.
他们被限制住并处于严密的安全保护之下。
A staggering weight of secret orders was unsealed.
数量惊人的秘密命令被解封。
They knew at the briefing that this was the invasion.
他们在简报会上知道这是入侵。
Every bomb crater was shown, every ditch, every stile, every fence.
每个弹坑、每条沟渠、每道栅栏、每道栅栏都被展示出来。
There was a scale model of the beach built to exact proportions, so we all studied it to the point where we knew exactly every house, every defile, every-- everything.
有一个按精确比例建造的海滩比例模型，所以我们都研究了它，直到我们确切地知道每栋房子、每条小道、每件事。
We knew where we were going.
我们知道我们要去哪里。
They now learned they would not be going across the 30 miles of the channel at Calais.
他们现在了解到，他们不会在加莱跨越 30 英里的海峡。
The British 50th and the 3rd Infantry and the Canadian 3rd would land opposite the French cities of Bayeux and Caen.
英国第 50 步兵团、第 3 步兵团和加拿大第 3 步兵团将在法国城市巴约和卡昂对面登陆。
The American 4th would go in at the beach code-named Utah, while the American 29th and 1st Infantry would take Omaha.
美军第 4 步兵师将前往代号为“犹他”的海滩，而美军第 29 步兵师和第 1 步兵师将攻占奥马哈。
The 2nd and 5th Rangers would be given the task of silencing the guns on top of the cliffs at Pointe du Hac, flanking Omaha.
第二和第五游骑兵团的任务是压制奥马哈侧翼哈克角悬崖顶上的炮火。
It was no secret to the Germans that an invasion was imminent, but there were storms over the channel and air reconnaissance had picked up no evidence of Allied activity.
对于德国人来说，入侵迫在眉睫并不是什么秘密，但海峡上空有风暴，空中侦察没有发现盟军活动的任何证据。
On June 4th, Rommel arrived home to celebrate his wife's birthday.
6月4日，隆美尔回到家为妻子庆祝生日。
He had brought her a pair of shoes from Paris.
他从巴黎给她带来了一双鞋。
On June 8th he planned to see Hitler at Obersalzburg and to persuade Hitler to give him command of all armored divisions in Normandy.
6月8日，他计划在上萨尔茨堡会见希特勒，并说服希特勒将诺曼底所有装甲师的指挥权交给他。
Hitler was not anxious to see Rommel.
希特勒并不急于见到隆美尔。
He did not trust him, he had told others, and was more determined than ever to keep control over Rommel's armored divisions himself.
他告诉其他人，他不信任他，并且比以往任何时候都更加坚定地要亲自控制隆美尔的装甲师。
In England, the loading of the ships that would carry the vast army across the sea to Normandy continued -- enough armament to support the 25,000 men who would make the initial assault and the 125,000 who would soon follow.
在英格兰，载着大军渡海前往诺曼底的船只仍在继续装载——足够的武器装备可以支持最初发起进攻的 25,000 名士兵以及随后紧随其后的 125,000 名士兵。
And everybody sang, ''God bless, Yank.
每个人都唱道：“上帝保佑，扬克。”
Give 'em hell.''
让他们见鬼去吧。”
They were loaded on ships in the same order they would storm the Normandy coast.
它们被装上船的顺序与袭击诺曼底海岸的顺序相同。
Less than 15 percent of the men coming aboard had ever seen combat.
船上的人中只有不到 15% 经历过战斗。
He says, ''You're going to see a show.
他说：“你会去看一场演出。”
You're lucky to be in an invasion like this, but it's going to be-- and it's going to be more ships participate in this than anyplace that's ever been in the world.
你很幸运能够参与这样的入侵，但它将会——而且参与这次入侵的船只将比世界上任何地方都要多。
We're going in to win.
我们要赢。
There's no coming back.'' Then he left the ship.
再也回不来了。”然后他离开了船。
It didn't make no difference if you was Jewish, Italian, Irish, whatever you were.
无论你是犹太人、意大利人、爱尔兰人，无论你是什么人，都没有什么区别。
It didn't make no difference.
这没有什么区别。
They all wanted to hear the word.
他们都想听听这个词。
It was a way of saying, ''Okay, get right with your Maker, regardless who you believe in.
这是一种说法，“好吧，无论你相信谁，都要与你的创造者保持正确的关系。”
Make yourself right with Him.''
让自己与他和好。”
Look up at the church and the school.
抬头看看教堂和学校。
Look at the fields.
看看田野。
Take it all in.
把它全部放进去。
You'll never see it again.
你再也见不到它了。
The invasion was to go on June 5th, but a storm forced postponement.
入侵原定于 6 月 5 日进行，但一场风暴迫使其推迟。
At Suffolk House near Portsmouth, Eisenhower had to decide.
在朴茨茅斯附近的萨福克宫，艾森豪威尔必须做出决定。
There must have been about, oh, I don't know, 15 of us there.
哦，我不知道，我们那里肯定有 15 个人。
Our two great men were there, Monty and Eisenhower.
我们的两位伟人蒙蒂和艾森豪威尔都在那里。
The poor weatherman had to talk first.
可怜的天气预报员不得不先说话。
Eisenhower asked Monty what he felt.
艾森豪威尔问蒙蒂有何感受。
''Sure, I'll do whatever you say, you know.
“当然，我会照你说的做，你知道的。
We're ready.'' Then Eisenhower very calmly said, ''We'll go.''
我们准备好了。”然后艾森豪威尔非常平静地说，“我们就走。”
On the evening of June 5th, the largest naval armada in history sailed for Normandy.
6月5日晚，历史上最大的海军舰队驶向诺曼底。
The minesweepers was first.
扫雷舰是第一个。
They went in there first.
他们先进去了。
And one of our submarines went in there and laid a line for us, little green lights.
我们的一艘潜艇进去了，为我们拉了一条线，小绿灯亮了。
The battleships Nevada, Texas, and Arkansas went in there and there was three British battleships went in.
内华达号、德克萨斯号和阿肯色号战列舰进去了，还有三艘英国战列舰进去了。
All the channels were joined up together in one huge sort of motorway.
所有的渠道都连接在一起，形成一条巨大的高速公路。
'Cause it really was rough.
因为这确实很艰难。
Oh God, it really was rough.
天哪，这真的很艰难。
They were throwing up their guts.
他们都快吐了。
My whole battalion came from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska.
我的整个营都来自明尼苏达州、爱荷华州、内布拉斯加州。
They hadn't done much sea travel.
他们没有进行太多的海上旅行。
But I was sick the whole way across, hoping and praying that the boat would sink.
但我一路上都感到恶心，希望并祈祷船会沉没。
Get us off these ships.
让我们离开这些船。
I don't care what's waiting for us.
我不在乎等待我们的是什么。
[Unintelligible] said, ''Oh, I know I'm not coming back.'' I said, ''I'm not going to entertain such a thought.
[难以理解]说，“哦，我知道我不会回来了。”我说，“我不会有这样的想法。”
I know I'm going back.'' I sat down and wrote two letters, one to my grandmother, one to my fiancee: ''Look, if you don't hear from me in the next six weeks or so, don't think nothing of it because I'll be busy.''
我知道我要回去了。”我坐下来写了两封信，一封给我的祖母，一封给我的未婚妻：“听着，如果你在接下来的六周左右没有收到我的消息，不要想太多，因为我会很忙。”
At 10:30 P.M., with the invasion armada enroute to Normandy, the supreme commander visited the 101st Airborne.
晚上 10 点 30 分，入侵舰队正在前往诺曼底的途中，最高指挥官视察了第 101 空降师。
He didn't tell us where we were going, that he had a lot to thank us for and would have much more to thank us for after this.
他没有告诉我们要去哪里，他有很多事情要感谢我们，并且在此之后他还会有更多的事情要感谢我们。
The 101st and 82nd were to drop behind enemy lines and secure the road exits leading off Utah Beach, destroy and hold the bridges over the Doubs and the Murdure [sp?] Rivers, and capture the crossroad town of Sainte Mere-Eglise.
第 101 和第 82 团将深入敌后，保卫通往犹他海滩的道路出口，摧毁并占领杜河和穆杜尔河上的桥梁，并占领十字路口城镇圣米尔埃格利斯。
I lined up all the pilots.
我把所有飞行员都排好队。
I says, ''I don't give a damn what you do, but for one thing.
我说：“我不在乎你做什么，但有一件事。”
If you're going to drop us on a hill or if you're going to drop us on our zone, drop us all in one place.''
如果你要把我们扔到山上，或者如果你要把我们扔到我们的区域，就把我们都扔到一个地方。”
It was 11:15 P.M.
当时是晚上 11 点 15 分。
They were now part of the largest skytrain ever assembled -- 822 C-47's carrying 13,000 paratroopers.
它们现在是有史以来组装的最大空中列车的一部分 - 822 C-47 运载着 13,000 名伞兵。
A trail of C-47's as far as you could see behind you and look up ahead and see C-47's as far as you could see ahead of you.
您身后所能看到的 C-47 的踪迹，抬头望去，您前方所能看到的 C-47 的踪迹。
Crossing the coast, they could see six British Horsa [sp?] gliders.
穿过海岸，他们可以看到六架英国霍萨[sp?]滑翔机。
Towed by C-47's, they carried 180 British assault troops.
它们由 C-47 拖曳，载有 180 名英国突击队员。
Their task was to capture the Caen canal and Orne River bridges and preserve a link between the British airborne troops and those advancing from the beach.
他们的任务是占领卡昂运河和奥恩河桥梁，并保持英国空降部队和从海滩推进的部队之间的联系。
In the moon, I could see just hulks down there.
在月球上，我只能看到下面的残骸。
We flew right over the invasion fleet.
我们正好飞过入侵舰队的上空。
When we crossed the coastline, I started pointing down and yelling at the men, you know, that we were crossing.
当我们穿过海岸线时，我开始指着下面的人对着我们正在穿过的人大喊大叫。
We could see the white of the beaches below us.
我们可以看到下面白色的海滩。
They went into this cloud cover or fogbank, and some went above it.
他们进入了云层或雾库，有些则进入了云层之上。
Others went down below it.
其他人则跌到了它下面。
The pilots gunned it.
飞行员向它开枪。
I sensed that there was something wrong.
我感觉到有什么不对劲。
And it just tore the equipment right off of you.
它只是把你的装备撕下来。
Nowhere near where we were supposed to be.
离我们应该去的地方还很远。
Troopers were scattered everywhere.
士兵们分散各处。
''Dick, is that you?'' He says.
“迪克，是你吗？”他说。
''Yes, sir,'' I says, ''Holy smoke.'' He says, ''Sir?'' I says, ''How close I came to shooting you.''
“是的，先生，”我说，“天哪。”他说，“先生？”我说，“我差一点就开枪打死你了。”
A lot of them went right down through the marshes and [were] never found.
他们中的许多人直接穿过沼泽地，却从未被发现。
That's where they drowned.
那是他们淹死的地方。
They was dead paratroopers everywhere.
到处都是死去的伞兵。
And they were just shot by the Germans, hanging there.
他们刚刚被德国人枪杀，挂在那里。
They could see the gliders that had come in during the night.
他们可以看到夜间飞来的滑翔机。
I saw a two-star general lying there just as dead as you could be.
我看到一位二星将军躺在那里，和你一样死了。
I know their survival rate couldn't have been 25 percent.
我知道他们的存活率不可能是 25%。
The Germans were everywhere.
德国人无处不在。
We were outnumbered.
我们寡不敌众。
Communications to Cherbourg had been cut.
与瑟堡的通讯已被切断。
Some rail and road bridges remained in enemy hands.
一些铁路和公路桥梁仍落入敌人手中。
Other objectives were difficult to hold.
其他目标很难实现。
We had made up our minds that no one was coming through that roadblock.
我们已经下定决心，不会有人通过这一障碍。
But the Utah Beach exits and the bridgehead over the Doube had been secured, and the first French town of the war had been liberated.
但犹他海滩的出口和杜比河上的桥头堡已经安全，战争中第一个法国城镇也已经解放。
It was a terrible day for paratroopers, but they did terrible fighting in there and they really made their presence known.
对于伞兵来说，这是可怕的一天，但他们在那里进行了可怕的战斗，他们确实让人们知道了他们的存在。
The bombardment of the beachhead started, and it sounded like rolling thunder, and you could even feel the ground shaking from it even though we were five miles inland.
滩头阵地的炮击开始了，听起来就像滚滚的雷声，即使我们在内陆有五英里，你甚至可以感觉到地面在震动。
My God, those kids are going to be hitting that beach.
天哪，那些孩子要去海滩了。
The old battleships just tremble, they shake.
老旧的战舰只是颤抖，摇晃。
Concussion's what gets you.
脑震荡会让你受伤。
We pumped 99 projectors [?] in there, 99.
我们在那里放了 99 台投影仪[？]，99 台。
They knew we was there.
他们知道我们在那里。
I looked down in the hold, you know, and I swear to God you never saw such a mess, just vomit all over.
我低头看着货舱，你知道，我向上帝发誓你从来没有见过这么乱的地方，简直吐了一身。
You were just like man going to a [unintelligible] [?].
你就像一个人要去[无法理解][？]。
There was no turning back.
没有回头路了。
They throwed everything they had at us.
他们把所有的东西都扔给我们。
The landing craft had been launched into high seas 11 miles from shore.
登陆艇已被发射到距海岸 11 英里的公海。
No coxswain, none of them knew where they were heading.
没有船长，他们都不知道自己要去哪里。
You know, after being tossed around, they headed for a piece of land.
要知道，他们经过一番折腾之后，就奔向了一块土地。
The Germans could see us out to sea, but we couldn't see the shore.
德国人可以看到我们出海，但我们看不到海岸。
The heavy shells coming over our heads made a terrifying sound.
沉重的炮弹从我们头顶上飞过，发出可怕的声音。
The machine gun boats was hit in the front of it, 'cause when you docked that ramp, the machine guns was right into it.
机枪艇在它的前面被击中，因为当你停靠那个坡道时，机枪就直接进入了它。
I was the first one, the first one across.
我是第一个，第一个穿越的。
It was just a matter of survival.
这只是一个生存问题。
It was just the idea of get behind something, get off of that beach.
这只是一个想法：躲在某件事后面，离开那个海滩。
They just saw him get almost cut in half.
他们刚刚看到他几乎被切成两半。
Confusion, total confusion.
混乱，彻底的混乱。
We were just being slaughtered.
我们只是被屠杀而已。
The British were experiencing terrible enfilading fire and heavy losses of tanks and landing craft on the obstacles, but it was on Omaha Beach where the carnage was taking place.
英国人在障碍物上遭受了可怕的包围火力和坦克和登陆艇的严重损失，但大屠杀发生在奥马哈海滩。
The swimming tanks were sinking and none of the heavy armor was getting ashore.
游泳坦克正在下沉，没有任何重型装甲能够上岸。
Them poor guys, they died like sardines in a can, they did.
他们这些可怜的家伙，就像罐头里的沙丁鱼一样死了，他们确实死了。
They never had a chance.
他们从来没有机会。
There were bodies floating around, no end of them.
周围漂浮着尸体，没有尽头。
You couldn't lay your hand down without you didn't touch a body.
如果不接触身体，就无法放下手。
You had to weave your way over top of the corpses.
你必须在尸体上方迂回前进。
Rank had nothing to do with anything on that beach.
排名与海滩上的任何事情都没有关系。
You were just clinging, not by unit, not by row.
你只是紧抓着不放，不按单位，也不按行。
Everybody individually almost did what they had to do.
每个人几乎都各自做了自己必须做的事情。
''Would it help to go in closer?'' And I said, ''Sure would.'' What I was looking for was smoke, flashes, anything.
“靠近一点会有帮助吗？”我说，“当然会有。”我寻找的是烟雾、闪光，或者任何东西。
I wasn't around, but I damn nearly was.
我不在场，但我差点就在场了。
''Holcomb, they're going to kill us all.'' I said, ''We're too close to this beach.'' ''Think positive, man.''
“霍尔科姆，他们会杀了我们所有人。”我说，“我们离这个海滩太近了。”“积极思考，伙计。”
He started yelling, ''God damn it, get up.
他开始大喊：“该死的，站起来。”
Move in.
搬进来。
You're going to die, anyway.
无论如何，你都会死。
Move in and die.''
搬进去然后死。”
With no more orders than to move forward and stay alive, mixed units and individuals one by one took things into their own hands.
除了前进和活命之外，没有任何命令，混合单位和个人一一掌握在自己手中。
By noon, the German first line of defense had been breached.
到中午时，德军第一道防线已被突破。
We were recreating from this mass of twisted bodies a fighting unit again, and it was done by soldiers not by the officers.
我们再次从这堆扭曲的尸体中重建了一个战斗单位，这是由士兵而不是军官完成的。
Troops were inland -- not far, but inland.
军队在内陆——不是远，而是内陆。
And they was just mortars and rifles.
他们只是迫击炮和步枪。
The 1st and 29th Divisions had fought yard by yard to get a mile and a half off the beaches.
第 1 师和第 29 师奋力拼搏，争取离开海滩一英里半。
The 4th Division from Utah was in four miles and with the help of tanks had made contact with the airborne troops of the 101st.
来自犹他州的第 4 师距离 4 英里，在坦克的帮助下与第 101 空降部队取得了联系。
The British and Canadians had advanced six miles and could see the gliders that had landed less than 50 yards from the Caen canal bridge.
英国人和加拿大人已经前进了六英里，可以看到降落在距离卡昂运河桥不到 50 码处的滑翔机。
It was time to add up the cost.
是时候把成本加起来了。
Over 9,000 had been killed or wounded that day.
当天已有超过 9,000 人死亡或受伤。
This is what dying is like.
这就是死亡的样子。
It's a feeling that, you know, the rest of my life is like a free bonus.
这种感觉，你知道，我的余生就像是免费的奖金。
When I was relieved and I walked by, oh God, the guys that died that day -- all those beautiful, wonderful friends of mine, the day before, the night before, kidding and joking.
当我松了口气，我走过的时候，天哪，那天死去的人——所有那些美丽、优秀的朋友，前一天、前一天晚上，开玩笑和开玩笑。
The exits were all in -- were all secure by noon.
到中午，所有出口都已经安全。
The whole God damned place was alive with stuff coming ashore.
整个该死的地方都充满了上岸的东西。
It was just backing up.
它只是备份。
It was all over the place.
到处都是。
Never stopped.
从未停止过。
It was unbelievable.
这太令人难以置信了。
But it was a scene of un-- as if the hand of God had just strewn all the debris in the world over it -- oh, God, you know, rubble and bodies and trucks moving, roads being built.
但这是一个场景——就好像上帝的手刚刚把世界上所有的碎片撒在上面——哦，上帝，你知道，瓦砾、尸体和卡车在移动，道路正在修建。
All of that was happening.
所有这一切都发生了。
They were bringing the wounded down from the base of the hill, the first crew of wounded being taken back to the mother ships.
他们正在把伤员从山脚下运下来，第一批伤员被带回母舰。
The biggest job was bringing the bodies that kept washing ashore.
最重要的工作是将不断被冲上岸的尸体运上岸。
There was a lot of them.
他们有很多。
There was a lot of them.
他们有很多。
Unlike the morning, the sea was welcoming, as if it were paying its respects to the men who had fallen, who, out of a nation of millions, had been selected for reasons only known to fate to represent us on the beach that day.
与早晨不同的是，大海很欢迎，就好像它在向那些阵亡的人们致以敬意，他们从一个数以百万计的国家中被选中，因为只有命运知道的原因，代表我们那天出现在海滩上。
If one cared to listen, the sound of gunfire could be heard, but to those who were leaving and those who remained and had witnessed the day, it was time to remember in silence.
如果有人愿意听的话，可以听到枪声，但对于那些离开的人和留下来见证这一天的人来说，是时候默默记住了。
It was over.
一切都结束了。
I mean, it — it was quiet, as if nothing had happened.
我的意思是，它——很安静，就好像什么也没发生过一样。
We-- the beach was not any general's business.
我们——海滩不关任何将军的事。
They had no say, none whatsoever.
他们没有发言权，没有任何发言权。
It would have made no difference who commanded us in those first hours, none, but there was something about it — the essential feeling of being there on that beach.
在最初的几个小时里谁指挥我们并没有什么区别，没有，但有一些东西——在那个海滩上的基本感觉。
None of us shall ever forget it.
我们谁都不会忘记它。
People have been asking what the "D" in "D-Day" means?
人们一直在问“D-Day”中的“D”是什么意思？
The battle's fliers, the men who landed on Normandy's beaches, and German soldiers tell their stories.
战斗中的传单、登陆诺曼底海滩的士兵以及德国士兵讲述了他们的故事。
The D-Day invasion began with a dangerous attack by American paratroopers.
诺曼底登陆以美国伞兵的危险袭击开始。
Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day.
阅读诺曼底登陆后美国士兵在欧洲写的几封信。
In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt convinces a largely isolationist Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the U.S. to sell or lend war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States."
1941 年，富兰克林·罗斯福总统说服主要奉行孤立主义的国会通过了《租借法案》，允许美国向“总统认为其国防对美国国防至关重要的任何国家”出售或出借战争物资。
Find out more about the People & Events featured in the film.
了解有关电影中的人物和事件的更多信息。