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 november 1940 a german bomber with its night-bombing navigation system ran out of fuel and landed on a beach on the south coast of england. a local army unit, determined that no one should meddle with it, placed two soldiers on guard.

it happened that the plane had landed at low tide. when the sea began to come in, sailors from a nearby naval base came and offered to drag the plane up the beach, but the two guards warned them off. eventually, the plane was submerged in water. by the time the intelligence service technicians arrived, the delicate equipment was spoiled. the loss of this opportunity to study the german bomber may have contributed to britain's failure to block the disastrous raid on coventry eight days later.

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