LeMay: 제트 기류 및 날씨 문제를 겪음

McKelway, who attended a farewell ceremony for Hansell, his departing boss, spent much of his time in bemused observation of LeMay, his new boss. “It was now known whether LeMay would be there in time for the ceremony, but he was. I wanted a photograph of LeMay shaking hands with Hansell and I so informed LeMay. [[He]] seemed surprised that anybody would want such a thing. He had kept in the background at the ceremony, smoking a pipe and hiding it in his pants pocket when the band played ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and the troops of the Twenty-first Bomber Command passed in review.”

- [[He]] seemed surprised that anybody would want such a thing 여기서 말하는 such a thing은 누가 그런 걸 사진 찍고 싶어하나(한셀과의 사진찍기) 하는 것.

- 밴드가 음악 연주할 때, 파이프 피우던 걸 주머니 안에 넣을 수 있나? (불에 타지 않나?) -당연히 실제로 탐. 잠깐 넣는다고 해서 두꺼운 군용 바지는 문제 없었을 수도 있고, 그냥 재빨리 불끄고 넣은 것일 수도 있고. 아무튼 국가가 나올 때 담배 무는 모습이 안 나오게 한 것.

- passed in review: 군사용어에서 pass in review는 부대가 의식행사의 일부로 사열을 받으며 행진하는 것이다. 상관, 귀빈 앞에서 줄 맞춰 행진하는 것.

 

 

After the parade, when the time came for picture taking, LeMay stepped uncomfortably in front of the camera with the pipe in hand. He tried to get it back into his pants pocket where, it seemed to McKelway, he must have some hidden apparatus to prevent it from burning his pants and his legs.

“General, please let me hold your pipe,” McKelway suggested. He handed McKelway the pipe with what seemed like a look of “abject misery,” said in a barely audible voice, “Where do you want me to stand?”

- apparatus: 장치

 

If this incident makes LeMay appear awkwardly self-effacing and even timid […]

- self-effacing에서 ‘efface;는 지우다니까, 스스로를 지우는, 즉 자기 존재감을 줄이는 느낌.

 

Awkward he could be, and reticent sometimes to the point of seeming rude and making people around him uneasy. (135)

- reticent: 과묵한

 

But there is little evidence that he was ever timid. Within a few days after his permanent arrival on Guam he was in contention with the Navy, an “enemy” he sometimes seemed to fight almost as fiercely as he fought the Germans and Japanese, though less effectively.

- 온지 얼마 되지 않아 해군에게 불만족한 르메이는 비록 덜 효과적이긴 했으나 그들과 독일, 일본과 싸우는 만큼 아주 열심히 싸우는 것처럼 보였다.

 

LeMay was duly impressed by the spacious, comfortable house the admiral had arranged for his Seabee construction corps to build for him, the staff of Filipino mess boys, the immaculate uniforms of the naval officers and the mess boys (in contrast to his own winkled Air Force tans) … (136)

- mess boys에서 ‘mess’는 군대·해군에서 식당, 취사 시설을 뜻하므로, 여기서 mess boys는 군대, 배에서 식사 시중을 드는 하급 인원을 말함.

- Seabee construction corps 해군에서 건설 일을 하는 부대이다. 미 해군 건설대의 별명이라고 보면 된다.

 

After making some discreet inquiries among the construction workers, LeMay managed to come up with a bootleg copy of the Navy’s Construction Priority List for Guam.

- bootleg: 이 표현은 ‘불법 밀수품을 장화 속(boot leg)에 숨겨 들여오다’에서 유래한 것으로 불법의 , 비공식적인, 허가받지 않은, 정도의 의미이다.

 

Though Nimitz was the theater commander, LeMay realized, he “had to give us his life’s blood in logistics, in supply and support and so on.” But at the same time he “had no operational control over the B-29s. Thus he was awarded no credit for anything they accomplished.” (137)

- 니미츠가 전구 사령관

- 르메이 보기에, 니미츠는 미친듯이 B-29위해 물류 공급해주어야 하는 역할인데, B-29작전에 대한 실제 권한은 없었음, 그러니까 그들이(B-29들) 성취한 것에 대해 어떤 공로도 받을 수는 없음. =돈,피 다 대주면서 성과에 대한 명예 없는 것.

 

When he took such considerations into account, LeMay was inclined to adopt a more tolerant attitude toward the Navy. For a while, at least. (137)

 

An indication of what Arnold expected from him[LeMay] can be found in a memorandum, Arnold to Norstad, dated January 14, 1945, just a few days before the Air Force chief’s fourth heart attack:

[…] . . . Unless something drastic is done to change this condition soon, it will not be long before the B-29 is just another tactical airplane. . . .

- memorandum: 공식적인 메모, 보고서, 회람 문서, 메모다. 메모.

- just another tactical airplane

 

르메이가 직면한 문제: 제트 기류, 날씨 예보 없음, 많은 구름

 

With very little weather information coming out of northern and central Asia, there was no way to predict the weather over Japan. And it would have provided scant comfort if he had been able to do so because Japan was one big cloud factory.

 

게다가 B-29는 고고도(35,000ft)에서 날 수 있도록 설계는 되었지만 Jet stream이 방해.

 

“You could go on forever,” LeMay discovered, “trying to get up to a target in such a wind. And if you went cross-wind, your bombsight wouldn’t take care of the drift you had. If you came in downwind, you didn’t have time to get a proper run on the target. This was really a tough proposition to lick.” (138)

- get up to a target에서 ‘get up to’는 (비행기가) 목표 지점까지 올라가다 / 도달하다

- drift you had: drift는 항공에서 ‘~풍’을 의미.

- to lick: 구어체로 ‘lick’은 ‘극복하다, 이기다, 해결하다’의 의미.

 

He took a hard look at that thirty-five-thousand-foot operating altitude and decided the jet stream wasn’t the only disadvantage it offered.

- 작전고도가 35,000ft인 것에서 별다른 장점을 느끼지 못했고, 그 단점에는 제트스트림외에 다른 것도 있었다. (후술되는데, 그건 바로 운용상 문제 발생하는 것. 그래서 르메이는 10,000피트로 내려왔는데, 그래도 가끔 제트기류 만남.)

 

 

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[On the January 23 Nagoya mission]

 

[…] the Japanese had deployed every available pursuit plane, and while they were not individually as formidable as the German fighters, their numbers created a hazard that couldn’t be overlooked, especially since Japanese pilots didn’t hesitate to ram their planes into the big invading bombers. (138)

- ram: 들이받다, 충돌하다, 세게 밀어 넣다 (일종의 자살 공격 의미함.)

 

 

르메이는 Pentagon에, 좀 더 준비될 때까지 무장이 덜 된 곳을 공격하는 걸 제안했고 그게 바로 미쓰비시 비행기 공장이다. (Tamashima에 있음) 그리고 준비가 될 때까지 타겟 범위를 넓히고, 야간 공격을 하라고 했다. (더 많은 비행기 조종사들은 2월 후반부에나 올 것.)