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Translate this! A WWII Related Challenge
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鎧袖一触
Anyone who gets it right is a winner! (Note, online translators won’t get it right, I’ve checked.)
Hint: has to do with Battle for Midway.
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American soldier very very thirsty –-> Midway
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Exchange the bombs for torpedoes .
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All our aircraft carrier on sea bottom.
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incorrect, but at least in the next town over, so getting a little closer…
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The water tower is out–at Midway
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One touch
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@Dauvio:
One touch
hmmm, somebody’s been using google translate…
It’s a Japanese idiom about war…
“One touch” isn’t right by itself, but we are getting close
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@Dauvio:
One touch
hmmm, somebody’s been using google translate…
It’s a Japanese idiom about war…
“One touch” isn’t right by itself, but we are getting close
Ah, that’s enough of a hint to give away the answer to anyone who’s read “Miracle at Midway” by Gordon Prange. The phrase is “One touch of an armoured sleeve”, a Japanese pep-talk expression roughly meaning “We’ll mow 'em down!” in English. As I recall, Yamamoto used that expression in response to an officer who expressed doubt about whether the planned operation would succeed.
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@CWO:
@Dauvio:
One touch
hmmm, somebody’s been using google translate…
It’s a Japanese idiom about war…
“One touch” isn’t right by itself, but we are getting close
Ah, that’s enough of a hint to give away the answer to anyone who’s read “Miracle at Midway” by Gordon Prange. The phrase is “One touch of an armoured sleeve”, a Japanese pep-talk expression roughly meaning “We’ll mow 'em down!” in English. As I recall, Yamamoto used that expression in response to an officer who expressed doubt about whether the planned operation would succeed.
Correct! :lol:
The literal translation is “one touch of the armored gauntlet”… but sleeve works too I guess.
However is was not Yamamoto who said it. According to the book Shattered Sword:
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And here’s the version from Prange, which agrees on the essential points:
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