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。
报国死何难
during the spring of 1942, the japanese war machine was bulldozing its way through the south pacific. for a while, the japanese seemed invincible. the course of the war in the pacific turned, however, when the united states won a smashing defensive victory over the japanese at the battle of midway island in june 1942.
the american victory owed a lot to torpedo squadron eight. flying obsolete and slow torpedo bombers, the squadron were literally annihilated by the japanese during their unescorted attack on four japanese aircraft carriers. of the 32 aircrew, only one man survived. yet their gallant sacrifice was not in vain-- the squadron drew the japanese air patrol down to low level, allowing american dive bombers a completely unopposed attack on the four japanese carriers, three of which were sunk in mere minutes.
