二战启示录 第58期:美国盟友(5)(在线收听

   Yamashita makes hundreds of prisoners line up in perfect order so impressive and humiliating review.

  山下让数百名战俘排成完美整齐的队伍进行着令人叹为观止却极尽羞辱能事的检阅仪式
  Yamashita indulges in a civil salute for the Japanese propaganda crew.
  他在日本宣传人员镜头前彬彬有礼地行礼如仪
  Genernal Yamashita will be hanged for war crimes in 1946.
  山下大将最后在1946年因战争罪行而受绞刑
  Gernernal MacArthur commander of US forces in the Philippines
  麦克阿瑟将军是驻菲律宾美军的指挥官
  which are now surrounded by the Japanese is ordered by Roosevelt to escape so as not to be taken prisoner.
  而现在菲律宾已被日本包围,罗斯福下令他撤离以免被俘
  When he arrives in Australia he declares: "I shall return."
  他抵达澳洲时公开声明:“我会回去的”
  MacArthur's soldiers are taken prisoner.
  麦克阿瑟的士兵都成了阶下囚
  二战启示录
  Thirth thousand Americans with the old 1917 doughboy helmets
  3万名戴着1917年步兵头盔的美军
  and equal number of Philippines who set off for their interment camp a hundred kilometers away.
  还有数目相近的菲律宾籍士兵全数被迫启程前往100公里外的战俘营
  This is the "Bataan Death March"
  这就是所谓的“巴丹死亡行军”
  One of the survivors Sidney Stewart recalls:
  幸存者之一席尼史都华回忆当时情景:
  "We march for ten days and nights without eating."
  “我们行军十天十夜完全没有进食”
  "We were constantly beaten."
  “一路不时挨打”
  "Those who could no longer go on were killed by the guards to behead them with the sword."
  “走不动的人就被卫兵杀害被利剑斩首”
  In just 5 months Japan has destoried the allied forces in the far east and conquered half of the pacific.
  不过5个月时间,日本摧毁了同盟国在远东地区的武力,征服了太平洋半数的地区
  "Long live the Emperor!"
  “天皇万岁!”
  A huge "Banzai" resounds through out the empire to celebrate the Japan's version of lightning war.
  浩大的“万岁”呼声响遍整个帝国,庆祝日本式的闪电战成功
  It reaches Genernal Tojo and the Emperor who deigns to make apperance in public with his family.
  欢呼声传至东条大将处也传到天皇处,他降贵纡尊与家人共同现身于民众之前
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