(131)戦争の神様 [名言]
(Top right: An Australinan guard presents arms while a bugler plays Last Post at the cremation of the midget submarine crews.)
presents arms 銃を捧げ持ち敬礼する
bugler ラッパ手
Last Post (英軍)軍葬ラッパ
cremation 火葬の葬式
midget submarine 小型潜航艇
名言1.The Gods of War show equal respect to the mighty and the weak.試訳:戦争の神々は強いものにも弱い者にも、同じに敬意を払う。―TOKU TAI―
名言2.It's not the size of the man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the man.(なぐり合いの勝敗を決するのは男の身体の大きさではなく、闘志の強さである。)―日本人の英語 マーク・ピータセン―
Toku-tai
Japanese submarine operations in Australian waters
―From Toku-Tai Japanese Submarine Operations in Australian Waters― There were no valour awards in the Japanese military system. To fight to the end, to spurn death, was the fighting duty of every serviceman. Only in death could he earn the highest award, and that was to become a demi-god. British commanders soon discovered this philosophy and Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett, the Australian commander in Malaya, was to write: 'Our British system has failed to develop the psychological side of a soldier's training. To train a soldier how to use his weapons is not enough.' Self-destruction missions called 'Kamikaze' were introduced by air squadrons at Saipan in 1944. Of the thousands of suicide actions carried out in the war, the submariners' was the greatest. Kamikaze campaign's very ferocity caused the United States Navy serious logistic and morale problems. But Japan lost the war. It's not the size of the man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the man. But Japan lost the fight because of its size, less resources. Admiral Yamamoto was the only member of the Imperial Chiefs of Staff Committee to oppose Japan's entry into World War Ⅱ. He believed Japan had more to gain by conserving its military strength until the warring nations had exhausted their sources, but he was defeated by the vote of the Committee. | 試訳:―特隊 オーストラリア海域における日本軍の潜水艦による作戦― |
valour 勇気 bravery
spurn はねつける reject
be to :used to say what is arranged to happen
demi-god 半分神、準神
be to ;used to say what happened later
squadron 飛行中隊 small military unit
ferocity ものすごさ
logistic 兵站(へいたん)に関する
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