The Japan Times Online, Feb.27にあったキャプションです。
Pilot who dismissed Pearl Harbor radar bogeys dies at 96
"bogeys" は知らない単語なので、記事を読んでみます。
An American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died at age 96.
Kermit Tyler was an Army Air Force first lieutenant on temporary duty at Ft. Shafter's radar information center in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, when two privates reported seeing an unusually large blip on their radar screen, indicating a large number of aircraft about 210 km away and fast approaching.
"Don't worry about it," Tyler famously replied, thinking it was a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers that was due in from the mainland.
どうも "bogey" と "blip" は同じ物を指している様なので、ここではレーダーに映っている影(日本の戦闘機の影)を指しているのでしょう。 まず辞書で "bogey" を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
・Dictionary.com: Military. an unidentified aircraft or missile, esp. one detected as a blip on a radar screen.
"blip" も確認します。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
・Dictionary.com: a) a spot of light on a radar screen indicating the position of a plane, submarine, or other object. b) (loosely) any small spot of light on a display screen.
"bogey" はゴルフの "bogey" (one stroke over par on a hole in golf)と同じなのも面白いですね。
Pilot who dismissed Pearl Harbor radar bogeys dies at 96
"bogeys" は知らない単語なので、記事を読んでみます。
An American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died at age 96.
Kermit Tyler was an Army Air Force first lieutenant on temporary duty at Ft. Shafter's radar information center in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, when two privates reported seeing an unusually large blip on their radar screen, indicating a large number of aircraft about 210 km away and fast approaching.
"Don't worry about it," Tyler famously replied, thinking it was a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers that was due in from the mainland.
どうも "bogey" と "blip" は同じ物を指している様なので、ここではレーダーに映っている影(日本の戦闘機の影)を指しているのでしょう。 まず辞書で "bogey" を見ます。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
・Dictionary.com: Military. an unidentified aircraft or missile, esp. one detected as a blip on a radar screen.
"blip" も確認します。
・OneLook Quick Definitions: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
・Dictionary.com: a) a spot of light on a radar screen indicating the position of a plane, submarine, or other object. b) (loosely) any small spot of light on a display screen.
"bogey" はゴルフの "bogey" (one stroke over par on a hole in golf)と同じなのも面白いですね。