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Introduction
On 1st September 1939 Germany invaded Poland. They used a new type of warfare called ‘Blitzkrieg’ or ‘Lightening War’. This is a war when tanks and planes are used to knock out the defences so that the defending country is easier to conquer. Two days after this happened; Britain and France declared war on Germany and the other Axis powers. It wasn’t until 7th December 1941, after a surprise attack by Japan, that destroyed most of America’s navy whilst it was still at Pearl Harbour that America joined the war to help Britain and France. Also in the war was the Soviet Union under the control of Stalin. On 6th June 1944 the Allies Invaded France in a massive attack and by 2nd September 1945 the Allies had won the war.

Turning Points
Dunkirk
The rapid defeat of the Allies in France in 1940 came as a great shock to many people, not least the British Expeditionary Force. The Germans forced the British troops out of Belgium. Most of the troops fell back onto the beaches of Dunkirk between May 29th and June 4th 1940. The Royal Navy did not have enough ships to risk a lone rescue so they called upon the British public for help. Anyone who had a vessel capable of sailing across the channel was asked to come forward to help Britain in her ‘hour of need’ There was a massive response. The Makeshift navy was called the “Skylark Navy”. All together it took 7 days to complete the evacuation. Because the operation had to be done with such speed, guns and heavy fortifications had to be left behind. This cost lots of money but saved lives. Even though the defeat in France was a disaster, the event of saving the British troops boosted moral and made people believe that the operation was a great British success. The soldiers that had been rescued from Dunkirk were bitter towards the Nazis and this proved useful during the D-Day landings.

Battle of Britain
Germanys invasion of Britain could not succeed if the Luftwaffe did not have supremacy in the air. On 14th August 1940 the Luftwaffe launched an attack on British Bomber Command. In two weeks of air fighting, one quarter of British pilots were killed or badly injured. For 53 nights they came every night. On 7th September 1940 the Luftwaffe started bombing Cities. This was a fatal mistake. It gave the RAF time to regroup, repair airfields and train new pilots. This is probably what cost Germany the war. On 15th September 1940 the German air force came by daylight. Also, at this time there was a lot of propaganda going on to boost British citizens moral. People were asked to donate scrap metal for new planes. This metal would just have been dumped though, because metal was plentiful, pilots were not. On many radio broadcasts it was reported that more German planes were shot down than actually were. In some cases three or four times as many. The Britain won the Battle of Britain for a few reasons; the Allied planes, Spitfire and Hurricane easily outmatched the Luftwaffe’s fighters. Also, the British pilots were highly trained and very efficient, they were ready to take of at a moments notice. At the height of the battle, they would be fighting practically all day. Just landing for fuel and ammunition.


Battle of the Atlantic
Because Britain is an island, her supplies mainly brought in from abroad. This meant that Hitler could cut off the supplies by bombing supply ships that were heading for British ports. Because Hitler had already gained control of most of the supply counties all he needed to do was to stop the Americans. He used a type of submarine called a U-boat. These were fairly heavily armed and could easily sink ships. To protect the ships from these, U-boats American ships would travel close together in convoys. American and British destroyers would surround these convoys, making it hard for U-boats to destroy and entire convoy and get home without damage. The battles were so frequent and hard to win that in 1941, 1299 allied ships were sunk (Six times as many as could be replaced). Only 87 German U-boats were sunk. To the Germans this was nothing. By July 1942 they were being launched at a rate of 30 per month. To cope with this new threat from U-boats, a new radar system was fitted to destroyers so that depth charges could be deployed in the correct area of sea. Radar systems were also fitted to planes so that they could seek-out and destroy U-boats whilst they were recharging their batteries. So that German U-boats could contact each other secretly, a new code was formed. This code was the Enigma code. Two Enigma machines were needed to encode and decode. This was very effective until one enigma machine and cipher documents were captured by the HMS Griffin, unharmed in May 1940. Thanks to this, the newly formed, ’convoy’ system of travel and the code-breakers of Bletchley park, the German U-boats were no longer as good a weapon as they were at the start of the war


D-Day
On 6th June 6,500 vessels landed over 130,000 men on five Normandy beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. 12,000 aircraft ensured air superiority. They bombed German defences and provided cover. On Utah beach 23,000 troops were landed at a cost of 197 casualties. However, on Omaha beach the landing was significantly harder, meeting with fierce German resistance, there were 4,649 American casualties. Overall, however, the landings caught the Germans by surprise and they were unable to counter-attack with the necessary speed and strength. Once the allied troops had destroyed the German defences they were free to bring new troops, machines and supplies over the channel and into Normandy. By the end of June, Eisenhower had 850,000 men and 150,000 vehicles ashore in Normandy. Fuel would have been a major problem for the allies, but thanks to the idea of piping oil straight from America, a pipeline had been built under the Atlantic Ocean. This was hard to destroy and so it was a success.In the weeks following the landings however, the narrow lanes and thick hedgerows of the French countryside slowed Allied progress considerably. Never the less in August Paris was liberated.

Evacuation
Due to the threat of war in 1939, women, children and old people were moved out of high-risk areas of Britain such as industrial areas and areas with a high population. In 1939 approximately 1,125,000 people were evacuated. This was a precaution and was not necessary. No direct action was taken against Britain by Germany. Most of the evacuees were transported back to their homes. However in August 1940, the war took a turn for the worse. The number evacuees rose to about 1,300,000. Life for evacuees was difficult. Most lived with people who didn’t understand them. Some got to live with rich people and had a nice few years but most didn’t. They were separated from their parents, not knowing if they were dead or alive. Many Mothers, children had diseases such as Vermin or Scabies, (see source). The evacuees where chosen by families, like at an auction. Each evacuee had a label saying where they were from and what medical conditions they had. This was horrible for most and “I'll take that one” became etched on the memory of our evacuees.

是第3块钢板的故事，另外的2个也给你。


二战期间，在美国空军中曾流传过3块钢板的故事。
第一块钢板的故事是运输机飞行员讲的。在飞越驼峰航线支援中国抗战时，美军的运输机队常常遭到日军战斗机的偷袭。C-47运输机只有一层铝皮，日军的零式战斗机在屁股后面紧追，一通机枪扫射，飞机上就是一串透明窟窿，有时子弹甚至能穿透飞行座椅，夺去飞行员的生命。情急之下，一些美军飞行员在座椅背后焊上一块钢板。实际上，在与日本飞机激战时，中国空军的飞行员早就用过这个办法。就是靠着这块钢板，他们从日本飞机的火舌下夺回了自己的性命。
第二块钢板的故事来自一位将军。看过好莱坞大片《拯救大兵瑞恩》的观众也许还记得，片中出现过一个死在滑翔机里的美国将军。这是一段真实的故事。诺曼底登陆中，美军第101空降师副师长唐。普拉特准将乘坐滑翔机实施空降作战。起飞前，有些人自作聪明，在机头位置副师长的座位下装上厚厚的钢板，用来防弹。但他们没有想到，由于滑翔机自身没有动力，与牵引的运输机脱钩后，必须保持平衡滑翔降落，而沉重的钢板让滑翔机头重脚轻，一头扎向地面，普拉特准将也摔断了脖子，成为美军在D日阵亡的唯一将领。
第三块钢板的故事来自一位数学家。二战后期，美军对德国和日本法西斯展开了大规模战略轰炸，每天都有成千架轰炸机呼啸而去，返回时往往损失惨重。美国空军对此十分头疼：如果要降低损失，就要往飞机上焊防弹钢板；但如果整个飞机都焊上钢板，速度航程载弹量什么都要受影响。
怎么办？空军请来数学家亚伯拉罕。沃尔德。沃尔德的方法十分简单。他把统计表发给地勤技师，让他们把飞机上弹洞的位置报上来，然后自己铺开一张大白纸，画出飞机的轮廓，再把那些小窟窿一个个添上去。画完之后大家一看，飞机浑身上下都是窟窿，只有飞行员座舱和尾翼两个地方几乎是空白。
沃尔德告诉大家：从数学家的眼光来看，这张图明显不符合概率分布的规律，而明显违反规律的地方往往就是问题的关键。飞行员们一看就明白了：如果座舱中弹，飞行员就完了；尾翼中弹，飞机失去平衡就要坠落——这两处中弹，轰炸机多半就回不来了，难怪统计数据是一片空白。因此，结论很简单：只需要给这两个部位焊上钢板就行了。
第一块钢板是传奇，机智的飞行员用它挽救了自己的生命，战场上曾有过许多这样的传奇故事，但这种传奇往往像火花一闪即逝；第二块钢板则是教训，是用宝贵的生命换回来的教训，谁都知道焊钢板的人也是好心，但结果却完全相反；而第三块钢板是升华，它用科学的方法，从实战经验中提炼出规律，你可能想像不到，这块讲科学的钢板挽救了数以万计的飞行员的生命。

The German Loss of U-505

Virtually everything that occurred on June 4, 1944, centered around one man: Harald Lange. As a commanding officer he was ill-matched for the situation. "U-505," mused Jürgen Oesten, captain of three boats during the war (U-61, U-106, and U-861) and a holder of the Knight's Cross. "Not what I would call a lucky boat." He went on to reflect briefly on the various broken careers left behind by U-505: Axel-Olaf Löwe, her first captain, who sank six ships, then got appendicitis and never went to sea again; Peter Zschech, who sank one ship and committed suicide in the boat; and finally Lange himself. "A reserve officer," concluded Oesten, as though it explained everything. "No sinkings."

Peter Hansen, a former Kriegsmarine officer and sometime member of the Abwehr, does not dismiss the reserve officers as easily as Oesten. "There were some very good ones, particularly those that had been merchant marine officers before the war. On the other hand, there were likewise a number of total flops among the active officers who turned into complete failures. One must look first and foremost at the officers involved." Hansen points out that Harald Lange was chosen personally by Karl Dönitz to command U-505. It was not something Dönitz often did. A very busy man, he usually allowed U-Boat Personnel Command in Kiel to do their jobs without interference. In this case, he was looking for a man of stability to take over U-505, "mainly, one must assume, as he wanted U-505 to have a dependable commander in view of her history, the suicide of Peter Zschech, and the many technical shipyard problems that had developed," explained Hansen.

Lange was not inexperienced. He received his commission before the war and had served in the U-Bootwaffe for almost three years. One year of service was as first watch officer on U-180 under Werner Musenberg, then a brief stint as the boat's captain, and finally command of U-505 for ten months before its capture by Gallery. Lange was forty at the time of his capture-which was old for the captain of a frontline U-boat. As Oesten pointed out, Lange had no sinkings to his credit. This was not unusual in 1944, however, when the yardstick for success was measured not by the tonnage sunk but by how long a man could keep his crew alive. In better times he might have done well, if not spectacularly well. But at the bitter end, in the last minutes of his command, Harald Lange made all the right decisions.

The end came late on the morning of Tuesday, June 4, 1944. Located by units of Gallery's Task Group 22.3 and attacked repeatedly by depth charges, U-505 suffered major damage. There was no reasonable hope of escape. At about 1115 Lange made the decision to surface. It was the first of four decisions he made in approximately ten minutes. Each was made under heavy pressure, and each had far-reaching consequences.

Perhaps things might have gone better if Lange had made the decision to abandon ship before he came up. It was often done that way, and there is good evidence it might have prevented the boat's capture. Oesten offers a possible scenario for a Type IX boat:

By means of compressed air remove remaining water from the diving tanks in order to give the boat as much buoyancy as possible, distribute the crew to the four hatches: torpedo hatches fore and aft, galley hatch and conning tower. Open all the hatches at the same time, crew gets out quickly. Open the air-valves of diving tanks. The period of grace of about two minutes should be sufficient in order to get the crew out of the boat through the four hatches, before the boat has sunk. This, I guess, might work with a good and experienced crew.

Regardless, Lange decided not to immediately abandon ship. No matter what the physical condition of the boat (and she was severely injured) he evidently believed there was some hope she could be defended. Nobody will criticize a captain for not wanting to give up his ship without firing a shot. Having made this decision, however, Lange simultaneously ruled out any quick scuttling along the lines described above. And that may have given Gallery the extra time he needed to move into position to board U-505.

Lange tried to exit as fast as possible, was severely wounded in the attempt, declined to try to defend a doomed boat, and instead issued the command to abandon and scuttle. It was his last decision and perhaps his most controversial, for once the crew abandoned the boat it was much more vulnerable to being captured. Should he instead have ordered the crew to stay on board and fight back?

Finally, there would have been motivational difficulties because any serious defense was nothing more than a kamikaze mission. There was one way into the boat, which was good for anyone planning a defense, but there was also only one way out. Those who fought off boarders would be driven inexorably forward or aft into areas from which there was no escape. And what would a temporary victory achieve? "In our situation," explained Hans Goebeler, a member of Lange's crew, "we were facing a half-dozen enemy warships backed up by air support. Those were impossible odds, even for a U-boat in perfect condition. The piece de resistance, of course, was that we were in far from perfect condition. . . . Only a madman or a butcher of a Skipper would have even considered ordering a crew to fight it out under these conditions." As noted above, few German sailors were so driven they would willingly die to keep a boat out of enemy hands. Oesten concurs: the position faced by Lange was hopeless, and "in a hopeless position it would not make sense" to fight back.

Within a few seconds after the order to scuttle U-505 Harald Lange was wounded and lost consciousness. He was responsible for four major decisions from the time the attack on his boat began. Each was correct (or at least arguably so) under the circumstances as he knew or believed them to be. His conduct in an awful situation was irreproachable. "I could not have done anything better than Lange did," was Jürgen Oesten's honest assessment.

这是真实的,不知道你要不要翻译.

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