1945年夏天，盟军正在把日本撕成碎片 By the summer of 1945, the Allies are tearing Japan to shreds.
我们会四散开来，大喊“他们来了！” We'd scatter in all directions and shout, "they're coming!"
登陆入侵似乎迫在眉睫 A ground invasion seems imminent.
人类历史上最大的两栖攻击 The largest amphibious assault in human history.
我们熟悉海滩，我们知道作战程序 We knew the beaches, we knew the order of battle.
但一枚炸弹…… But one bomb...
改变了一切 changes everything.
人们只是坐着，就着火了 People just sat, catching fire.
有些回忆永远不会褪色 Some memories will never fade.
我经历了我们国家的崩溃 I experienced the collapse of our nation.
幸存者都不会忘记 And no survivors will ever forget.
我母亲以为我被杀了 My mother thought I had been killed.
聆听声音，感受战斗 Hear the voices and feel the fight.
【全彩太平洋战争】 （八）出于灰烬
“我们要在白天飞过去”，散下的传单上写着 We were going up in daylight and dropping leaflets that said,
“我们建议你们撤离城镇 "We advise you to evacuate your town
因为我们会在周日下午2点到达 because we're coming up here Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
把这里烧成灰烬” to burn it to the ground."
1945年3月 In March of 1945,
柯蒂斯·勒梅将军带着火把来到东京 General Curtis Lemay took a torch to Tokyo
这是世界上首次大规模使用凝固汽油弹 in the world's first large-scale use of napalm bombs.
对东京的第一次火攻将16平方英里的城市夷为平地 The first fire raid on Tokyo flattened 16 square miles of the city.
勒梅欣喜若狂 Lemay was ecstatic.
他立即下令执行更多这样的任务 He ordered more of those missions immediately.
勒梅的目标是任何有军事工业的地方 Lemay targets any place with a war industry.
几个月内，美国的燃烧弹袭击了67个日本城市 In a matter of months, America firebombs 67 Japanese cities.
木构易燃，风助火势，像洪水一样席卷了整个日本 Fueled by wood and wind, flames wash through Japan like a flood.
母亲背着我的弟弟 Mother, with my little brother on her back,
她的脚被风吹跑了…… had her feet swept out from under her by the wind...
然后她被卷进了火里 and she rolled away into the flames.
美国投掷燃烧弹杀害了大约50万平民 American firebombs kill an estimated half-million citizens.
勒梅亲自拍下了破坏场面 Lemay films the damage himself.
他的录像从未被公布过 His footage has never been broadcast before.
某些地方只剩下了桥 In some places, only bridges are left,
连接着不复存在的社区 connecting neighborhoods that no longer exist.
我想，如果我输了这场战争 I suppose if I had lost the war,
我可能会被当作战犯审判 I would have been tried as a war criminal.
但是所有的战争都是不道德的 But all war is immoral.
如果因此而烦恼，你就不是一个好军人 And if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
日本的影片展示了匆忙的撤离 Japanese film shows the rush to evacuate.
整个班级的孩子从城市迁移到乡村 Entire classrooms of kids migrate from city to country.
但他们无法逃脱恐惧 But they don't escape the fear.
到1945年，我们已经不怎么上课了 By 1945, we no longer had many classes.
我们主要做的事，是在校园角落里挖反坦克壕沟 The main thing we did was dig an anti-tank ditch in the corner of the schoolyard.
日本越来越绝望 Japan is increasingly desperate.
美国比以往任何时候都更接近 America swoops than ever closer.
直到6月，我们几乎消灭了 By June, we have just about obliterated
来自地面或空中的任何抵抗力量 any opposition that we had from the ground or from the air.
日本出动了最后的飞机和飞行员，与盟军混战 Japan deploys its last planes and pilots to face the Allies and dog fights.
这些战斗过去都是在开阔的太平洋上进行的 These battles used to be out of the open Pacific,
现在正发生在日本上空 now they're over Japan itself.
然后日本人就耗尽了汽油 Then the Japanese simply run out of gas.
你会看到整个机场都堆满了飞机 You would see whole air fields loaded with airplanes.
没有一架能离开地面的 And there wasn't one that could get off the ground.
日本人完全没了燃料 The Japanese were completely out off the fuel.
你会发现有艘小货船 You'd find the little cargo boat
载着两三桶来自偏远岛屿的汽油，试图驶回大陆 with two or three drums of gasoline from some remote island, trying to make it back to the mainland.
日本帝国挣扎喘息 The Japanese empire is gasping for breath.
然而，没有任何投降的迹象 Yet there is no sign of surrender.
盟军开始为不可思议的事做计划 Allies begin planning for the unthinkable.
我们有登陆日本的计划 We had the plans for the landing in Japan.
我们熟悉海滩，知道作战程序 We knew the beaches, we knew the order of battle.
海军陆战队所有6个师都将参与这次袭击 All six Marine divisions were going to land in the assault.
我们后面还有32个陆军师，包括麦克阿瑟的 We would be followed by thirty two Army divisions, including MacArthur's.
这将是战争史上规模最大的两栖攻击 It would be the largest amphibious assault in the history of warfare,
代号“垮台行动” code name -- Operation Down Fall.
然后，会有大约70个师乘船离开欧洲，直接驶向那里 Then they were going to embark something like seventy divisions out of Europe and sail directly there.
入侵部队最高数目的估计为将近200万人 The high end estimate of the invasion force is nearly two million men.
策划者认为战争将持续到1947年 Planners assume that fighting will rage into 1947.
鉴于几周前留在冲绳的那些人类残骸 After the human wreckage left on Okinawa is just weeks earlier,
大多数海军陆战队员并不怀疑这个可怕的预计 Most marines don't doubt this dire predictions.
我们知道他们在冲绳挖的那些巨大的防御工事 We knew they were digging in all those tremendous defenses in Okinawa.
他们只用了四个月 They did in four months.
他们在东京准备的时间要比那长得多 They had a lot longer than that to prepare in Tokyo.
一名军官告诉我们，我们将被编入突击部队 An officer told us we were going to be in the assault wave.
他说，你向左右看看 He said, look to your right and look to your left.
我们攻打海滩的一周里，你们当中有人会死 A week after we hit that beach, one of you will be dead.
可真是鼓舞士气 That was a real morale builder.
但是哈里·杜鲁门总统正在权衡一个不同的选择 But President Harry Truman is weighing a different option.
1945年7月16日
在新墨西哥州的偏远地区 In the middle of nowhere, New Mexico
科学家们准备把一个钢球吊上脚手架 scientists prepare to hoist a steel globe into a tower of scaffolding.
这是世界上第一个核装置 It's the world's first nuclear device.
他们小心翼翼地抬起 They lifted carefully,
因为知道如果掉下来，也会把他们自己炸成灰 knowing if it drops, it'll turn them into dust,
如果它有效的话 if it works at all.
这是曼哈顿计划的关键时刻，三位一体测试 This is the moment of truth for the Manhattan Project -- the Trinity Test.
把它固定在塔上后，科学家们退到了20英里外 After securing it in the tower, the scientists moved twenty miles away.
然后他们按下开关 Then they flip the switch.
就像置身于光的海洋底部 It was like being at the bottom of an ocean of light.
我们四面八方都沐浴在其中 We were bathed in it from all directions.
我们知道世界将会大不相同 We knew the world would not be the same.
有人笑了 A few people laughed,
有人哭了 a few people cried.
大多数人都沉默了 Most people were silent.
然后奥本海默的一位同事对他说 Then one of Oppenheimer's colleagues turns to him and says,
“现在我们都是狗娘养的了” now we are all sons of bitches.
三位一体是一颗威力不明的脆弱炸弹的试验 Trinity was a test of a fragile bomb of unknown power
坐落在空旷的沙漠地区 sitting on the floor of an empty desert.
接下来，他们必须弄清楚如何用移动的飞机投放 Next they'll have to figure out how to push one out of a moving airplane.
只有极少数人知道原子时代已经到来 Only a handful of humans know the atomic age has dawned.
对其他人来说，太平洋战争看起来还是这样 For everyone else, the Pacific War still looks like this.
自战争开始以来，同盟国对中国的供应一直受到阻碍 Supplying China has stymied the Allies since the start of the war.
日本控制着滇缅公路，切断了中国与盟国领土的联系 Japan controls the Burma road, choking off China from Allied territory.
为了变通，美国尝试从马拉雅山的驼峰上空运送物资 As a workaround, Americans tried flying supplies over the hump of the Himalayas.
他们尝试派遣特工穿越西藏 They tried sending secret agents through Tibet,
以获得7岁的达赖喇嘛的好感 to get on the good side of the seven year old Dalai Lama.
最后，他们尝试用工程 Finally, they try engineering.
盟国试图通过一条新路绕过日本的封锁 Allies try to by pass the Japanese blockade with a new road
始自印度的利多镇 from the Indian town of Ledo.
丛林不是容易绕道的地方 The jungle is no easy place to make a detour.
这里很崎岖 It was rugged.
我们被分配到零英里的起点 We were assigned to mile zero,
被我们称之为“地狱之门” which we called "hell's gate."
从那里，他们慢慢地开辟出一条40英里的新道路 From there, they slowly carve a new ribbon of road for 460 miles.
我们用了他们能想到的一切工具来运土 We used every imaginable tool they had to move the earth.
工人们管它叫“大蛇” Workers nickname it "the big snake."
每个从事这项工作的人都会被咬一口 It takes a bite out of every man that works on it.
修路让我瘦了55磅 I lost about 55 pounds up there on the road.
口粮和炎热让我难受极了 The rations and the heat took me bad.
但是努力是有回报的 But the effort pays off.
大量物资开始流入中国 A stream of supplies begins to flow into China.
现在对抗日本的压力似乎来自四面八方 Now the pressure on Japan seems to be coming from every direction.
缅甸现在可以坚定地与盟国站在一起了 Burma can now stand firm with the Allies.
日军消失在丛林中，与世隔绝，被遗弃 Japanese troops dissolve into the jungle, isolated and abandoned.
在这里，自由是一种解脱 Here, freedom is a relief.
在美国西部，则是苦乐参半 In the American west, it's bittersweet.
自1942年以来，超过10万名日裔美国人 Since 1942, more than a hundred thousand Japanese Americans
都被关进了拘留营 have been forced into internment camps.
孩子们的成长过程跟囚犯差不多 Kids have been growing up as little more than prisoners.
当我到达营地时，还是高三学生 When I got to camp, I was a junior.
我的文凭是印第安事务局颁发的 My diploma was from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
把他们关在这里的恐惧理由并没有成为现实 The fears that put them here have not materialized.
他们没有成为间谍或破坏者 They haven't become spies or saboteurs.
相反，他们一直在悄悄地展现自己是多么的美国化 Instead, they've been quietly showing just how American they really are.
所以即使战争还在继续，美国打开了大门 So even with the war grinding on, America opens the gates.
那是我们人生的分界线 That was a dividing line in our lives.
拘留营之前，和拘留营之后 Before camp and after camp.
罗伯特和城间武夫将不得不重新开始 Roberta and Takeo Shiroma will have to start over.
我父母失去了他们的生意 My parents lost their business.
就好像他们又成了移民，带着几个行李箱离开 It's like they're immigrants once more, departing with a few suitcases
去往一个崇高原则不适用他们的国家 to a country whose lofty principles do not apply to them.
许多美国人不希望他们回来 Many Americans don't want them back.
一位参议员建议将他们全部驱逐回日本 One senator suggests they all be deported to Japan.
西海岸的报纸谴责他们为“加州的日本问题” West coast newspapers decry what they call "California's Jap problem."
我父亲找不到工作 My father could not get a job.
他们说:“你不看看你的长相？我们不能雇用你” They said, "have you looked at your face? We can't hire you."
一些人甚至在可以自由离开时，还坚持住在难民营 Some even cling to the camps when they could freely leave.
但城间试图从他们家族的祖先那汲取智慧 But the Shiromas try to heed wisdom from their ancestral home.
我们常听到这样一句话： We have a phrase that we hear all the time.
叫做，仕方がない It's called "shigata ga nai."
它的意思是“于事无补” It means "it couldn't be helped."
已经发生的事情，就让它过去吧 It's something that happened, and you let it go.
对于有些人来说容易，有些人则不然 That will be easier for some than others.
在美国西部的另一片沙漠 In another desert of the American West,
B-29机组人员排队接受检查 B-29 crews line up for inspection.
他告诉我们，我们这套装备可能会结束战争 He told us that we were in an outfit that might end the war.
然后… Then...
他们准备进行一场高风险的练靶游戏 they prepare for a high-stakes game of target practice.
三位一体试验开创了原子时代 The trinity test ushered in the atomic age.
但没人知道，如何从飞机上扔下这么大的炸弹 But no one knows how to drop such a big bomb out of a plane.
所以B-29载着被称为“南瓜”的假炸弹在沙漠投掷 So B-29s take off with dummy bombs called "pumpkins" to drop onto the desert.
我猜他们刚刚铲了这些风滚草 I guess they just plowed up these tumbleweeds
这样我们就能看到目标 so we could see a target.
在超过5.5英里的高空，他们放手了 From more than 5 1/2 miles up, they let it go.
地面上，专家们在观察炸弹的动态 On the ground, experts observe the bomb's dynamics.
第一枚滚跑了 The first ones tumbled.
然后他们更换了尾翼 Then they changed the tailfins.
洛斯阿拉莫斯的人在下面计时 People from Los Alamos were down there timing
看它们需要多长时间才能坠落 how long it would take them to fall.
有人开玩笑说他们站在靶心 Someone joked that they stood in the center of the target
因为他们觉得那是最安全的地方 because they felt that would be the safest place.
这不是靶心 It's not a bullseye.
但有了真炸弹，它可能就不重要了 But with the real bomb, it might not matter.
1945年8月5日
8月5日，另一队机组准备飞往日本 On august 5th, another air crew prepares for a run on Japan.
这几乎成了家常便饭 It's becoming almost routine.
这是第345轰炸团，绰号空中阿帕奇 This is the 345th bombardment group, nicknamed the air apaches.
他们在伊江岛，冲绳岛附近的一个小岛 They're on Ie Shima, a little island off Okinawa
现在是一个繁忙的空军基地 that's now a bustling air base.
目标就在430英里外的垂水市 The target is the town of Tarumizu, just 430 miles away.
约翰·汉纳上尉亲自拍摄了这一幕 Captain John Hanna films the action himself.
由于日本无力建立足够的防御 With Japan unable to mount much of a defense,
汉纳的飞机可以刮掉屋顶 Hanna's plane can scrape the rooflines.
他们轰炸沿海的工厂 They make runs on a coastal factory
那里是制造火箭推进自杀飞机的地方 that makes rocket-propelled suicide planes.
他们用燃烧弹轰炸附近的房屋 And they firebomb nearby homes
让工人们和工作场所一起瘫痪 to cripple the workers as much as their workplace.
第345团带着几处被防空炮火划伤的痕迹回到基地 The 345th returns to base with a few scratches from anti-aircraft fire.
垂水市被摧毁 Tarumizu is wrecked.
今天的突袭是325架飞机，和数千枚炸弹 Today's raid is 325 planes and thousands of bombs.
而明天就只有一枚 Tomorrow, it'll be just one.
1945年8月6日
中学生山冈美智子正在去广岛市中心的路上 Teenager Yamaoka Michiko is on her way to downtown Hiroshima.
我当时读高三 I was in the third year of high school.
我在7:45左右离开的家 I left the house around 7:45.
在天宁岛，保罗·蒂贝茨上校正在前往日本的路上 From the island of Tinian, colonel Paul Tibbets is on his way to Japan.
我们使日本人产生了一种虚假的安全感 We had lulled the Japanese into a sense of false security.
一个星期以来，我派出一架飞机飞越这些目标 For a week I sent a single airplane up over these targets.
我想让他们以为我们是侦察机 I wanted them to think we were reconnaissance planes.
B-29轰炸机飞过头顶时，我并不是很害怕 I wasn't particularly afraid when B-29s flew overhead.
我抬起头，想看看是否能认出它们 I looked up to see if I could spot them.
就是那一刻 That was the moment.
一点声音也没有 There was no sound.
我感到五颜六色 I felt colors.
我记得我的身体漂浮在空中 I remember my body floating in the air.
不知道自己被炸出了多远 I don't know how far I was blown.
我想说点什么，但就是无法发声 I tried to say something, but my voice couldn't come out.
我对自己说:“再见了，妈妈” I said to myself, "goodbye, mom."
蘑菇云下方一片黑暗和沸腾 Below the mushroom cloud, it was black and boiling underneath,
就像一锅沸腾的柏油 like a boiling pot of tar.
火焰从光芒之中迸发 Fires burst out from just the light itself.
没人看起来像是人 Nobody looked like a human being.
人们无法尖叫 People couldn't scream.
他们只是坐着，就着火了 They just sat, catching fire.
那时，我们已经出海，正在飞回家的路上 By that time, we were out over the water and on our way back home.
这是一次轻松的飞行 It was an easy flight.
我没有能力去想象，那东西到底是什么 I didn't have the ability to visualize what this thing really was.
没有标准，没有尺度来判断这件事 There was no measure, no scale by which to judge this thing.
当蒂贝茨排队授勋时，关于广岛被摧毁的流言四起 As Tibbets lines up for a medal, rumors swirl about the damage in Hiroshima.
他们进来时，都睁大了眼睛问… The guys came in with their eyes wide open and asked...
“上帝！是真的吗？” "Jesus! Is this true?"
几天后，美国人又制造了一枚原子弹 A few days later, Americans roll out another atomic bomb.
更大的尺寸和当量 Even bigger in size and power.
他们叫它“胖子” They name it "fat man."
里面是一块垒球大小的钚 Inside is a lump of plutonium about the size of a softball.
它们密封了接缝，以防止内部脆弱的部件受潮 They seal the seams to keep moisture away from the delicate components inside.
自从原子弹袭击广岛，日本没向外界发出任何信息 Since the bomb hit Hiroshima, Japan has sent no message to the outside world.
它沉默了… It is silent...
仿佛受到惊吓 as if in shock.
于是美国人把“胖子”装上车，前往下一个目标 So Americans load up fat man and head for the next target:
小仓市 the city of Kokura.
1945年8月9日
当B-29轰炸机到达时，小仓市被烟雾笼罩 When the B-29s arrive, Kokura is socked in,
燃烧的城市浓烟滚滚 with clouds and smoke from burning cities.
他们飞离去寻找次要目标 They peel off for their secondary target.
一个苏格兰战俘在附近的战俘营里 A Scottish POW is in a prison camp nearby.
我看见一架飞机飞过 I saw a plane flying.
两分钟后，长崎那边传来了巨大的雷声 Two minutes later came a tremendous clap of thunder from Nagasaki.
一阵强风几乎把我刮倒了 A gale-force wind nearly knocked me over.
日本不确定是什么袭击了他们 Japan isn't sure what's hitting them.
美国不确定它释放了什么 America isn't sure what it's unleashing.
只有蘑菇云下的人才知道 Only those under the mushroom cloud really know.
但世界很快就会知道 But the world will soon find out.
第二天，日本联系了瑞士，向美国传递信息 The next day, the Japanese contact the Swiss, who pass messages to the Americans,
即使他们的航空母舰发动了更多突袭 even as their carriers launch more raids.
与此同时，苏联入侵满洲 Meanwhile, the Soviet Union invades Manchuria,
又开辟了一条日本几乎无法防守的战线 opening another front Japan can barely defend.
日子一天天过去，双方都在商议 Days go by as each side deliberates
翻译 and translates
和谈判 and negotiates.
炸弹不断投下 Bombs keep dropping.
8月13日，1000架舰载飞机在东京进行最后一次俯冲 On august 13th, 1,000 carrier planes make their final dive on Tokyo.
在1942年，这是不可能的 In 1942, this would have been impossible.
现在不可阻挡 Now it's unstoppable.
1945年8月15日
一个古怪的沙哑声音从日本的电波中传出来 A scratchy recording of a strange voice goes out over Japanese airwaves.
裕仁天皇，被尊为遥远的神一般人物 It's emperor Hirohito. Revered as a distant God-like figure,
他从未向公众发表过讲话 he has never addressed the public...
直到现在 until now.
我们决定采取非常措施来达成和解 We have decided to effect a settlement of the present situation
以解决目前的局势 by resorting to an extraordinary measure.
他使用了一种古老的日本方言，很少有人理解 He uses an archaic Japanese dialect that few can understand.
但很快，消息变得清晰起来 But soon, the news becomes clear.
“玉音放送”《终战诏书》非正式投降协议，其中未言及“投降”二字，只承认了波茨坦公告
日本投降了 Japan surrenders.
世界在难以置信的一瞬间，屏住了呼吸… The world gasps in a moment of disbelief...
…东京消息，裕仁天皇已接受了起草的投降条款… ...coming out of Tokyo that emperor Hirohito has accepted the terms of surrender as drafted...
然后如释重负地呼气 then exhales in relief.
驶向日本的海军舰艇开始靠岸 Navy ships racing toward Japan begin to coast.
我们的船已经装配好，准备好入侵了 We had our ship loaded, totally loaded for us to invade.
此时收到了消息 We got the message.
我跑到舰桥上，有个好友是信号员 I ran up to the bridge where a good friend was signalman.
他拼写的是“战争结束了” He spelled out "war is over."
船长宣布,“这是违反海军规定的， The captain announced, "it's against naval regulations,
但所有人都可以去后厨拿两罐啤酒” but all hands can lay down to the scullery for two cans of beer."
环太平洋地区，准备进行最后进攻的人 All across the Pacific, men slated for the final assault
得到了生死攸关的消息 get the news of their lives.
我向你保证，那时候肯定松了口气 I guarantee you there was a lot of relief.
我不知道我们中有多少人，能在日本入侵中幸存下来 I don't know how many of us would have survived the invasion of Japan,
但我想不会有多少 But not very many, I don't think.
在菲律宾，消息慢慢传开了 In the Philippines, word slowly gets out.
军人丹·罗克林的影片讲述了 一个国家从低谷中慢慢崛起的故事 Serviceman Dan Rocklin films a nation slowly rising from its knees.
在暗处作战的日本人 From every corner of their fallen empire,
终于从垮台帝国的各个角落出现在阳光下 Japanese who fought from the shadows finally emerge into daylight.
他们开始出来，放下他们的步枪 They started coming in and putting their rifles down.
这就是他们的结局 That was the end of them.
一夜之间，我们从天堂坠入地狱 We fell from heaven to hell overnight.
在过去的3年半里试图消灭对方的人 Men who spent the last 3 1/2 years trying to annihilate each other
现在正面对着彼此 are now facing each other.
日本人都是从丛林里出来，交出了他们的刀 The Japs all came in from the jungle and gave us their swords.
当然，我们所有的军官拿到那些好的 Of course, all our officers got the good ones.
在中国，日军被赶进车厢里 In China, Japanese troops are herded into boxcars:
这是他们漫长回家之旅的沮丧开始 a demoralizing start to their long journey home.
我经历了我们国家的崩溃 I experienced the collapse of our nation.
这比死亡还要糟糕 It was really worse than dying.
在日本，人们感到震惊和羞愧 In Japan, there is shock and shame.
没人真正想过，日本会失败 Nobody truly thought Japan would lose.
自从有史以来，它从未被外国占领过 Since its ancient beginnings in the first century, it has never known a foreign occupation.
帝国的骄傲化为一片恐惧的阴云 The pride of empire disintegrates into a cloud of fear.
他们乘坐白色的飞机抵达 They arrive in white planes,
投降的颜色，麦克阿瑟将军坚持要求 the color of surrender, at general MacArthur's insistence.
他不想要任何错误的身份 He doesn't want any mistaken identity.
冉冉升起的太阳已被绿色的十字所取代 The rising sun has been replaced by a green cross.
日本代表团出现了 The Japanese delegation emerges.
他们刚刚到达菲律宾，与麦克阿瑟会面 They've just landed in the Philippines to meet with MacArthur.
日本的未来正在谈判中 The future of Japan is now under negotiation.
麦克阿瑟欢迎所有阵营的盟友 MacArthur welcomes Allies of every stripe.
一队全球性的军服阵容进入了马尼拉 A global array of military uniforms marches into Manila.
他们将通宵讨商谈匆忙翻译的地图和文件 They will talk all night over hastily translated maps and documents.
然后他们定了个日子，正式结束太平洋战争 And they settle on a date to formally conclude the Pacific War.
1945年12月2日
远处的富士山俯瞰着东京湾 A distant Mount Fuji presides over Tokyo bay.
对于密苏里号上的成千上万的人来说 For all the thousands on board the USS Missouri,
焦点集中在一个人身上 the focus is on one man,
现在的同盟国最高指挥官 now supreme commander for the Allied powers.
我没有收到指示，该说什么或做什么 I had received no instructions as to what to say or what to do.
我孤身一人，站在后甲板上 I was on my own, standing on the quarterdeck
只凭着上帝和我自己良心的指引 with only God and my own conscience to guide me.
麦克阿瑟将面对日本代表团，并宣示自己的主权 MacArthur stands to face the Japanese delegation and stakes his claim.
我宣布，我坚定的目标是 I announce it my firm purpose
以正义和宽容继续履行我的职责 to proceed in the discharge of my responsibilities with justice and tolerance,
以确保投降条款 to ensure that the terms of surrender
被全面、及时和忠实地遵守 are fully, promptly, and faithfully complied with.
最后，在平静的海盐味微风中 Finally, in the calm of a sea-salt breeze,
太平洋战争持续不断的冲击 the incessant pounding of the Pacific War ceases
在庄严的潦草签名中停止了 with the quiet scrawls of solemn signatures.
仪式以一声咆哮结束 The ceremony ends with a ferocious roar--
近500架B-29轰炸机飞过 a flyover of nearly 500 B-29s.
现在，双方不得不突然从战斗转向合作 Now both sides have to make a sudden turn from combat to cooperation.
太平洋地区的持久和平岌岌可危 A lasting peace in the Pacific is at stake.
几个星期前，计划是这样的—— Just weeks earlier, this was the plan--
全副武装冲进一个有2000年历史的帝国 an all-out full-force charge into the drawn swords of a 2,000-year-old empire.
现在，盟军手无寸铁地接近 Instead, the Allies approach unarmed.
我们没带任何弹药 We didn't have any ammunition.
麦克阿瑟不希望发生意外 MacArthur did not want any incidents.
一件都不行 Not one incident.
成千上万的军队涌入他们不共戴天的敌人的土地… Thousands of troops pour onto the soil of their sworn enemy...
没有射击 without firing,
没有闪避 without ducking,
没有死亡 without dying.
日本人在盟军的监督下解除武装 Japanese disarm themselves under Allied supervision.
美国人正直视着等待他们的虎口 Americans look right into the jaws of what awaited them.
从岸边到东京 From the water line to Tokyo,
一路都筑有带壕沟和路障的隧道洞穴 every yard of it was entrenched and barricaded with tunnels and caverns.
那将会是一场大屠杀 It would have been a bloodbath.
美国人着迷于对方的战争视角 Americans are fascinated with the war's opposing perspective.
他们把玩着曾经瞄准他们的机枪 They play with guns that were once aimed at them.
他们发现了一艘画着盟军飞机的日本船 They find a Japanese ship with Allied planes painted on the side--
——给炮手的备忘录 a cheat-sheet for gunners.
有的人参观日本潜艇 And one takes a tour of a Japanese sub.
我敢肯定他们恨我们 I'm sure they hated us.
但是他们有些人试图引荐某种初交的友谊 But some of them tried to introduce some sort of incipient friendship,
好像在他们的内心深处 as if, in the back of their minds,
他们意识到我们是人类，就像他们一样 they recognized that we were humans, just like they were.
胜利者现在已完全靠岸 The victors are now fully ashore.
下一个是被征服者 Next come the vanquished.
700万日本人分布在亚洲和太平洋地区 Seven million Japanese have been spread across Asia and the Pacific,
为他们记忆中的祖国而战 fighting for the homeland they remember.
有些人已经离开多年，不知道他们的国家经历了什么 Some have been gone for years, with no idea what their nation has endured.
口罩和喷洒滴滴涕防止疾病的传入 Face masks and a blast of DDT stave off the import of disease.
但失败的打击是无法治愈的 But there's no cure for the shock of defeat.
日本人把他们的敌人想象成残忍的野蛮人 Japanese citizens imagined their enemies as ruthless barbarians.
现在这些外国军队在他们中间走动 Now these foreign armies are walking among them.
他们背对着我们，低下了头 They turned their backs to us and hung their heads.
我问翻译:“他们在做什么？” I asked the interpreter, "what are they doing?"
他说:“这是屈服的标志” And he said, "that's the sign of submission."
盟军的轰炸和封锁使日本陷入饥荒 Allies bombed and blockaded the Japanese into starvation.
现在他们卸下了C型口粮 Now they unload C-rations.
我们并没打算永远喂饱他们 MacArthur: we didn't intend to feed them forever.
我们需要在人力允许的情况下，尽快让日本自给自足 We needed to make Japan self-sufficient as soon as it was humanly possible.
这是一项艰巨的任务 This is a tall order.
日本的大部分地区已经不复存在了 Much of Japan is simply not there anymore.
东京已经消失了一半 Tokyo is half gone.
一英里又一英里，看起来就像被砍得只剩树桩的森林 For mile after mile, it looks like a forest clear cut down to stumps.
重建是一项巨大的工作，很多人难以掌握 Rebuilding is a job too immense for many to grasp.
所以他们就直奔主题… So they simply get to it...
用凿子… with picks...
用铲子…… and shovels...
和双手 and bare hands.
有两个城市情况更糟 In two cities, it's even worse.
我们直接飞过长崎 We flew directly over Nagasaki.
从零爆点开始，所有东西都360度向外辐射 From ground zero, everything radiated out 360 degrees.
我们去了广岛 We went to Hiroshima.
你无法想象 You can't imagine.
几英里内，什么也没有 For miles, there was nothing.
一无所有 Nothing left.
这座城市被毁得只剩下人行道 This city was burned down to the sidewalks.
但是原子弹持久的影响，不只是在瓦砾中 But the bomb's lasting impact is not in the rubble of brick and mortar.
它是心灵和身体的创伤 It's in the scars of mind and body.
医院里的伤情超出了任何人的训练范围 Inside hospitals are injuries beyond anyone's training.
方圆半英里内的人都立刻被烧焦了 Anyone within half a mile was instantly scorched.
两英里外，皮肤自燃 Two miles away, skin spontaneously ignited.
广岛少女山冈美智子幸存 Hiroshima teenager Yamaoka Michiko survives,
但随后不得不忍受痛苦 but then has to endure.
人们向我扔石头，还叫我怪物 People threw stones at me and called me monster.
有一次我妈妈想要掐死我 Once my mom tried to choke me to death.
如果一个女孩有张毁容的脸 If a girl has a face you couldn't be born with,
我知道即使一个母亲也会想杀死自己的孩子 I understand that even a mother could want to kill her child.
在广岛，很少有家庭是完整的 In Hiroshima, few families are intact.
悼念者在拥挤的公墓里哀悼 Mourners grieve at overcrowded cemeteries.
没人知道，新的日本何时，或是否 会从原子弹的阴影中走出来 No one knows when or if a new Japan will emerge from the atomic shadow.
我们期待这一刻已经很多年了 We'd hoped for this moment for years
梦想着有一天它会到来 and dreamt that one day it might arrive.
但我们绝没想到会是这样 But we'd never known that it would.
14万盟军战俘迈出了回家的第一步 140,000 Allied prisoners of war take their first steps toward home.
在泰国的战俘营，他们登上飞往越南的航班 From a POW camp in Thailand, they board flights to Vietnam.
西贡的一家老旅馆接待了他们 An old hotel in Saigon puts them up,
感觉就像在丽兹酒店 and it feels like the Ritz.
在新加坡，印度的锡克教士兵解放了 In Singapore, Sikh soldiers from India come out of captivity.
美国部队向他们的自由致敬 U.S. troops salute their freedom.
在菲律宾，日本把9万名战俘称为“帝国的客人” In the Philippines, Japan had called its 90,000 prisoners of war "guests of the empire."
现在他们搭上顺风车，加入车队 Now they hitch rides and join convoys
带着他们远离绝望，走向希望 to carry them away from despair, toward hope.
在日本本土，36000名战俘忍受了黑暗和腐朽 In Japan itself, 36,000 POWs have endured darkness and decay.
我们不得不用担架抬出90%的人 We had to carry 90% of them out on stretchers.
他们有些人的骨头刺穿了皮肤 Some of their bones were sticking through their skin.
从前的俘虏涌上街头 Former captives flood the streets,
尝到了第一口自由的滋味…… getting their first sips of freedom...
他们第一次尝试“吃到饱”的自助餐厅 and their first crack at the all-you-can-eat mess tent.
他们开始了回家的漫长旅程… They begin the long journey home...
庆幸还能活着 lucky to be alive.
超过四分之一的西方盟军战俘死于囚禁 More than a quarter of western Allied POWs died in captivity.
日本计划处决其余的所有人 Japan planned to execute the rest-- all these men--
——一旦本土入侵开始 once the land invasion began.
一些人已经掘好了自己的坟墓 Some had dug their own mass graves.
我们讨论过，回家后要做什么… We talked about what we were going to do when we got home...
我们都等不及想要见谁了… who we couldn't wait to see...
以及日常生活中的所有问题，都不能再打扰我们 and how all the problems of normal life could never bother us again--
在我们经历了那么多之后 not after what we'd been through.
我们接走了上千多的军人 We picked up over a thousand military personnel.
船上很拥挤 The ship was so crowded.
但是没人抱怨 But nobody complained.
我们正在回家的路上 We were homeward bound.
他们渴望家庭 They crave family.
我母亲以为我被杀了 My mother thought I had been killed.
在夏威夷的时候，我打电话告诉她我没事 When I was in Hawaii, I called her and told her I was fine.
然后我直奔酒吧，看到了女孩们 Then I hit the bars and saw the girls.
他们渴望熟悉的事物 They crave the familiar.
当我们到达旧金山，人们把花扔向我们 When we got to San Francisco, people were throwing flowers.
还有一个大标语——“欢迎回家” There was a big sign-- "welcome home."
他们渴望家常菜 They crave home cooking.
在塔拉瓦，我们只有碎菠萝和维也纳香肠罐头吃 In Tarawa, we ate nothing but crushed pineapple and canned Vienna sausage.
我吃的维也纳香肠足够做根绳子，把我甩回家 I ate enough Vienna sausage to make a rope and swing me home.
最后，他们渴望正常生活 Finally, they crave normalcy.
我退伍后的第一件事，是直奔百货公司 The first thing after I got discharged, I went straight to a department store.
我给自己买了一套普通的衣服 I bought me a whole suit of civilian clothes,
从头到脚 from head to foot.
我当场就换上了 And I put it on right there.
也许我不该这么说 Maybe I shouldn't say this,
但我只是把我的制服扔进垃圾桶，然后走了出去 but I just took my uniform and dropped it in the garbage and walked on out.
那是快乐的一天 That was one happy day.
火车正在运行 The trains were running.
有轨电车在行驶 And the streetcars were running.
日本人在忙碌 The Japanese were very busy.
一个新的日本开始从废墟中崛起 A new Japan begins to rise out of the rubble.
麦克阿瑟指挥占领军，但不以太上皇的姿态出现 MacArthur guides the occupation without appearing as an overlord.
我建议日本人民和我们的精英之间 I advised the Japanese people to seek a healthy blend
寻求一种健康的融合 between the best of theirs and the best of ours.
他开启了公民自由… He opens civil liberties...
和超越了神道教和佛教传统的宗教自由 and religious freedoms beyond the deep traditions Of Shinto and Buddhism.
他还向全国免费分发了上千万本圣经 He also floods the country with ten million free bibles.
棒球已经是两国都喜欢的一种消遣 Baseball is already a pastime both countries enjoy.
麦克阿瑟的私家录像拍到他的 妻子珍正在观看一场日本球赛 MacArthur's own home movies capture his wife Jean taking in a Japanese ballgame.
有一次，她甚至为比赛开球 Once, she even throws out the first pitch.
劳军联合组织进入最后阶段 The USO reaches its final stage,
丹尼·凯伊为占领军演出 with Danny Kaye playing it up for occupation troops.
市场变得繁忙 Markets get busier.
人们更加友好 People get friendlier.
新的花朵慢慢绽放 A new openness slowly blossoms.
麦克阿瑟允许裕仁继续担任天皇 MacArthur allows Hirohito to remain emperor.
他从隐士变成了公众人物 He goes from recluse to public figure.
不敢以眼直视他的孩子，如今用欢呼声包围他 Kids who would not dare look him in the eye now surround him with cheers.
这是他第一次访问广岛，纪念爆炸受害者 Here, he makes his first visit to Hiroshima to honor the bomb victims.
1947年12月7日 It's December 7, 1947
即珍珠港事件引发太平洋战争的整整6年之后 Exactly six years after the attack on Pearl Harbor sparked the Pacific War.
日本，富士山之乡 Japan, the land of Fuji-San,
是所有值得参观的国家中最有趣的一个 is one of the most interesting of all countries to visit.
为了帮助重建工作 To help the rebuilding effort,
美国开始鼓励人们前往它刚刚击败的国家旅游 America begins encouraging travel to the country it just defeated.
旅游带来了现金和文化交流 Tourism brings cash and cultural exchange--
他们希望这两件事能带日本进入自由国家的大家庭 two things they hope can bring Japan into the family of free nations.
旅游电影承诺这是一个充满异国风情和声音的国度 Travel films promise a land of exotic sights and sounds.
但也有足够的西方元素来吸引那些有疑虑的人 But with enough Western touches to attract the skittish.
旅游业是战后新的宣传手段 Tourism is the new post-war propaganda.
传达的信息可能是在迎合 The message may be pandering,
但它确实暗示了我们的希望 but it does hint at the promise.
从浩瀚的海洋边缘… From the edges of a vast ocean...
从大灾难的灰烬中… and from the ashes of its great cataclysm...
新一代人将开始弥合巨大的太平洋鸿沟 new generations will begin bridging the great Pacific divide.
但对于这一代人来说，它再也不会是太平之海了 But for this generation, it will never again be the peaceful sea.
我想知道战争是什么 I wonder what war is.
我想知道，为什么我们这么做 I wonder why we did it.
我说的不是胜利或失败 I'm not talking about victory or loss.
我只是为那些死去的人感到伤心 I merely feel heartbroken for those who died.
无论你有多荣耀 However much you're glorified,
如果你死了，那就完了 if you're dead, that's it.
人们总是说，这部电影是写实的… People always say, this movie was realistic...
或者那部电影不是 or that movie was not.
战争是电影里看不到的东西 War is something you don't get in any movie.
腐烂尸体的刺鼻气味… The pungent odor of decaying bodies...
自动武器持续的碰撞声… the constant clatter of automatic weapons...
焦虑的等待… suspenseful waiting...
然后是呼啸的炮弹冲击… then the impact of whispering artillery shells...
伤员和垂死者的尖叫声… screams of the wounded and dying...
压倒性的火药味… the overwhelming smell of gunpowder...
这些，在电影里是看不到的 you don't get any of that in a movie.