Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Writer-Producer Alan Melville (now in the R.A.F.) and CBC's E. L. Bushnell conceived Front-Line Family early in 1941 under a table in a London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...
Shortly after eight o'clock last evening a new system of air raid warnings was tested in Cambridge. The method of alerting has been changed slightly in order to insure a standardized system for the Eastern Seaboard region...
...raid klaxon ground...
...Vinegar Joe," an infantryman through & through, is in the anomalous position of having nothing but air-force troops to command in China. Chennaultmen say that honest Joe Stilwell has taken his command literally, has countermanded Chennault's orders on occasion, on others has dispatched flyers to raid points which Chennault did not think should be raided at the time...