突击圣纳泽尔港(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。
突击圣纳泽尔港
in 1942, the normandie dock of st nazaire in german-occupied france was the only atlantic seaboard facility capable of taking in any large german warship. so the british developed a most daring plan to destroy the heavily defended dock.
under the plan, an old destroyer, hms campbeltown was loaded with 4.5 tons of high explosive in the bows. on 26 march 1942, the destroyer, escorted by 18 shallow draft boats, set sail, and at 1:30 am on 28 march rammed into the st nazaire lock gates and was blown up. about 200 royal commandos disembarked under heavy fire and destroyed other dock structures. all but 27 of them were killed or captured.

despite the heavy casualties, the raid was judged to be highly successful. the dock remained unusable until 1947.
一九四二年，法国在德军占领下，圣纳泽尔港诺曼底船坞是德国大型战舰在大西洋海岸唯一可以开入的船坞。英国于是制定一个十分大胆的计划，要把这船坞毁掉。
根据计划，旧驱逐舰《坎贝尔顿号》在船头放了四吨半烈性炸药，一九四二年三月二十六日启航，由十八艘吃水不深的船护卫，三月二十八日上午一时三十分，直撞入圣纳泽尔港的水闸，然后引爆。约二百名英国皇家突击队员冒着猛烈炮火上岸，破坏船坞的其他设施，最后只有二十七人脱身，其余的不是战死，就是被俘。
这次突击固然伤亡惨重，但当局仍然认为十分成功。诺曼底船坞到一九四七年才能重新启用。