神话故事里常常有虾兵蟹将参战,但那毕竟是神话,而在近代战史中,确有潜艇巧借‘虾兵’掩护的军事趣闻。第二次世界大战中,日本海军曾拚命捕捞一种叫弹指虾的小虾,然后又把它们投到停泊着美国舰队的海洋附近。为什么呢?原来,为了防备日本的潜艇偷袭,美国海军在舰队停泊水域下安置了听音器,如果潜艇来犯,听音器就可以听到潜艇行进的声响,立即向美 There are often shrimps and crabs in the mythological story that will go to war, but after all, it is a myth. In the history of modern warfare, there were indeed military anecdotes that submarines could borrow the shrimp soldiers. During the Second World War, the Japanese Navy had desperately caught a shrimp called shrimp, and then dropped them again near the sea anchored by the U.S. fleet. Why? It turned out that in order to prepare for Japan’s submarine attack, the U.S. Navy placed a listening device under the water parked by the fleet. If the submarine committed the noise, the sound device could hear the sound of the submarine’s journey and promptly report to the United States