格伦．米勒之死(英中对照)

古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
格伦．米勒之死
on the night of 15 december 1944, american musician glenn miller left an airbase in southeast england to entertain us soldiers in paris. his plane was never seen again, and wild rumours about his fate sprang up, from death at the hands of the nazis to a covered up death in the arms of a paris prostitute.
a more likely explanation emerged later. fred shaw was a navigator on an raf bomber. on 15 december 1944, with its bombing mission to germany aborted because of bad weather, his squadron was heading back to base. for safety reasons, the planes were ordered to jettison their bombs over the english channel before landing. shaw looked out the window and saw the bombs hit a small plane underneath them. only after seeing the film the glenn miller story in 1956 did shaw fit together the dates and times and realise that it was probably miller's plane.

一九四四年十二月十五日晚上，美国乐手格伦．米勒从英格兰东南部一个空军基地出发，准备去巴黎为美军表演。他的飞机从此失踪。谣诼纷起，或说他死在纳粹德军手下，或说他死在巴黎妓女怀中而当局为之隐瞒等等。
后来有个解释较为可信。弗雷德．肖是英国皇家空军轰炸机领航员。一九四四年十二月十五日，他所属轰炸机中队因天气恶劣，取消轰炸德国任务，飞回基地，为保安全，奉命着陆前在英吉利海峡投弃炸弹。肖往窗外望去，看见炸弹击中下面一架小型飞机。一九五六年，他看了电影《格伦．米勒故事》之后，比对日期、时间，才想到那架小型飞机可能就是米勒的飞机。