Word: air-raid
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...pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...propaganda was very obvious: Dr. Goebbels, hoped to move sentimental Americans to protest against the continued Allied air attack on railways, power stations, airdromes, war plants in Occupied France. Following his evocation of the boulevards and the fashions, the broadcaster said: "One cannot forget the war in Paris. Night & day one must be on the alert for the dreadful air-raid alarms, and be prepared to go to the cellar if he cares for his life." Axis news pictures have played up the same theme. One, probably genuine, showed Parisians in panic at the Longchamps races, during a raid...
...home propaganda, partly defeated its own purposes. For example, the people were told that the reorganized military defenses were so strong that enemy planes could never again penetrate to the centers of Japanese cities. Accepting this, the people themselves have made only haphazard preparations against air attack, and the civilian air-raid precaution system is poorly organized and equipped. Foxholes in back yards are the only shelters; fire-fighting equipment is old and inadequate. The people know all this, but they remain confident that their leaders can keep the war at a distance - if Russia can be kept from attacking...
...sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin' along to civilize...
Generals and Admirals. Much of the confusion in the public mind stems from Army-Navy antagonism, by now diminished, but still flickering. One day 13 months ago Secretary Stimson told the U.S. the reason for Los Angeles' air-raid alarm: "Enemy agents flew over in 15 planes." Navy Secretary Knox called it a false alarm...