起飞 1941年8月27日早晨,北大西洋上空浓云密布,海面刮着时速90英里的大风,波涛汹涌,白浪滚滚,能见度不到2英里。驻在离冰岛首府雷克雅米克45英里的K机场上,英国皇家空军第269中队的少校詹姆斯·汤普森和他的机组成员、领航员科尔曼、电信手斯托特、射击手德雷克,准备驾驶他们的洛克希德·赫德逊式飞机去执行例行的护航巡逻飞行。 8时,汤普森和科尔曼在作战室里听取最新敌情 Takeoff On the morning of August 27, 1941, there was a dense cloud over the North Atlantic Ocean, with a gust of wind blowing 90 miles per hour. The waves were rolling and the white-water billows were visible with less than two miles of visibility. At K Airport, 45 miles from Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, Major James Thompson, Major 269 Squadron of the RAF, and his crew, Navigator Coleman, Telestat Stotter, and Shooter Draeger G, preparing to drive their Lockheed Hudson aircraft to perform routine escort patrol flights. At 0800, Thompson and Coleman heard the latest hostility in the war room