Word: arps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although no official certificates may be awarded to those who hear the lecture, the course will be adequate training for a College warden post, while it will serve as an important refresher to previously accredited ARP...
When war came, Britons flocked to London's Waterloo Road to have regimental marks or "I Love Flossie Forever" needled into their skins. Air Raid Precaution women wanted ARP on their arms. One ambulance driver selected a bracelet with her name and address...
...course will be an intensive survey of the latest methods available for ARP work, and although no national certificate will be granted to those who attend the lecture, they will be fully equipped to serve as Harvard wardens. This represents a compromise between the full warden's course which leads to a certificate, and the duties of entrymen who often have little or no training...
Therefore the course will be aimed primarily at those men who have been engaged in ARP activities but who have not yet taken any course. New men, especially those from the Class of '46 upon whose heads the system of Air Raid Precautions at Harvard will soon largely rest, are also urged to attend. Old wardens are also asked to attend this meeting as a refresher course...
...expected that the lecture will represent the very latest news from the ARP front, especially the answer to the controversy over the spray or jet method of dealing with incendiary bombs. Fire-fighting, explosives, and gas will also be treated in the intensified course. If this unique lecture is successful the audience should have a firm foundation for future ARP activities...