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。
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in december 1941 the japanese invaded malaya and drove through the peninsula to the british base at singapore. their artillery shelled many targets, and every now and then japanese planes unloosed their loads of horror. the screams of the wounded and dying were something to instil fear into the stoutest heart.
on a little side road, nearly in the centre of the carnage, was a tommy private, with a vickers, mounted for ack-ack, pouring fire from a red hot barrel at every plane that passed. right in the centre of the road he stayed, no camouflage and no fear, and his answer to all and sundry was, "the bloody … s will never think of looking for me in the open, and i want to see a bloody plane brought down."
