반응형 Reading47 Curtis LeMay의 대학생활과 입대 *LeMay, Ohio State에서 4학년 말이 되어갈 때, Army Air Corps에 들어가는 데에 문제가 있다는 걸 알게 됨. 처음 두 해 동안 일하느라 아침 수업을 듣지 못했는데, 그때 못들은 것 중 an engineering course entitled Railroad Curves. 거의 깨어 있지 못했던… 여하간 그래서 졸업을 위해 필요한 학점중 15학점이 부족했다. He found those curves so soporific he flunked the course two semesters in a row.- soporific: 최면성의 He was an honor graduate in ROTC. And sometimes honor graduates could win regular Army.. 2025. 10. 20. Curtis LeMay의 유년 시절 Who was this suddenly famous but still perplexing and unexplained war hero whose fierce, unsmiling, cigar-speared face had begun appearing in all the newspapers and on the covers of magazines? - cigar-speared face에서 ‘speared’는 말 그대로 ‘창으로 꿰뚫린, 찔린’이라는 의미. 시가가 얼굴에 늘 붙어 있었음을 비유적으로 표현한 것. Platoon of men: platoon은 군대 조직 중 보통 2개 정도의 squad, section으로 구성된 수준을 말함. He had never been in any way a part of th.. 2025. 10. 20. 르메이, 핵폭탄, 일본의 항복 선언, 종전 For their charts and drawings they used the only thing they had on Guam, a two-foot-wide roll of butcher’s paper on a frame. Though their presentation seemed smooth enough, LeMay realized, when he looked around at General Marshall, that they had come on a bootless errand. The nation’s most powerful military man was asleep. (175)- Bootless = useless 워싱턴에서 떠나기 전에, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves를 만났음. .. 2025. 8. 27. 르메이의 일본 본토 지역폭격 [chapter 10][chapter 11]News of the unprecedented success of the Tokyo mission buoyed the spirits of Hap Arnold, […]- buoy: 기분을 좋게 하다 [a letter from Hap to Curtis] “. . . A study of the Tokyo attack of March 10 and knowledge of the fact that by July 1 you will have nearly a thousand B-29s under your control, leads one to conclusions which are impressive even to old hands at bombardment operation.. 2025. 8. 27. 이전 1 2 3 4 ··· 12 다음 반응형