Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North American B-25 (Mitchell) - a battle-tested (two-engine, air-cooled) aircraft of speed, long range and good load-carrying characteristics, chiefly dramatized for the public by the raid on Tokyo. No airplane of the same class in friendly or enemy air forces is known to equal...
...transports' passage. In the five days of almost ceaseless combat, Malta's ack-ack guns and the R.A.F.'s Spitfires had destroyed more than 100 Axis aircraft. This week Malta still stood, battered and bloody, with guns and planes ready for the next Axis raid...
Complete with first-aid casualties, incendiary fires and other hazards of an air raid. Adams House held a test alarm last night "to discover operational defects." Richard N. Swift '44, head Adams warden, said after the raid, that it was "entirely successful in this respect...
Lasting for one hour, the raid was primarily a test for ARP personnel, whose functioning Swift described as "excellent." The firefighters came in for especial praise from the head warden, while other services, including the wardens and the first aiders also performed admirably, he said...
Over 200 people, including 65 Harvard undergraduates, 120 Radcliffe girls, and several member of the University Faculty and staff attended the first meeting of the second session of the Harvard Air Raid Precautions school. The meeting included general discussion of ARP communications and organization in the Greater Boston Region, especially in the City of Cambridge and on the University grounds...