古德明英語軍事小故事：報國死何難(中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰(zhàn)爭。報國死何難
during the spring of 1942, the japanese war machine was bulldozing its way through the south pacific. for a while, the japanese seemed invincible. the course of the war in the pacific turned, however, when the united states won a smashing defensive victory over the japanese at the battle of midway island in june 1942.
the american victory owed a lot to torpedo squadron eight. flying obsolete and slow torpedo bombers, the squadron were literally annihilated by the japanese during their unescorted attack on four japanese aircraft carriers. of the 32 aircrew, only one man survived. yet their gallant sacrifice was not in vain-- the squadron drew the japanese air patrol down to low level, allowing american dive bombers a completely unopposed attack on the four japanese carriers, three of which were sunk in mere minutes.
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