Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them the League is planning night classes to prepare for helping out in day nurseries,* hospitals and convalescent homes, children's theaters. They will also be urged to work for their local Nurse's Aide Corps, Red Cross Home Service, Air Raid Warden Service, the U.S.O...
Last week Colonel Carmichael put on his first big show over Rabaul, Japanese naval and air base 600 miles northeast of Port Moresby, 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. For once, he had enough planes: more Fortresses than anyone had ever had before in the Southwest Pacific. For once, the raid was well planned. First the Australians went over Rabaul in their Catalina flying boats, loosed their bombs shortly after midnight. Then, about 4 a.m. when the Japs were comfortably in bed again, the Fortresses began coming...
...circled the target for an hour and a half during the attack, piloting his own plane, with 34-year-old Colonel Frederic H. Smith Jr. (one of Admiral Ernest J. King's numerous sons-in-law) as observer. Colonel Carmichael was pleased as punch with his first big raid. Said he: "I had what amounted to a grandstand seat at the Yankee Stadium." Early next morning Colonel Carmichael's flyers visited Rabaul again, dropped 40 more tons on its supply dumps, warehouses, machine shops, barracks and jetties...
Plans for a new Air Raid Precautions course, to be open to all undergraduates and, for the first time, to a limited number of Radcliffe wardenettes, were announced yesterday by Henry Chauncey '19, assistant dean of the College. Principal innovation in the program is that it is built about rigid requirements set up by the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington...
...event of air raid, Auxiliaries will supplement the regular fire crews in their fight against blazing incendiary bombs. They are not called out only during enemy attacks, however, since volunteer firemen respond to all second alarm fires...