Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...
Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...
...German command in North Africa may not have cared whether or not Churchill made good his threat to retaliate against Rome. The raids-two of them within the space of three days-were prompted by military necessity. Objectives were airdromes from which Allied planes had been harrying Rommel's supply lines. Actually, though Cairo threw up a mighty and thunderous barrage, the raid was small, soon scattered, resulted in one fatality and "slight damage." Most of the bombs fell in the suburbs. London was inclined to let it pass...
Ready to roll at a moment's notice, the 45 men and four trucks of the Harvard Auxiliary Fire Department are fully equipped to meet any emergency, should air raid drills be set aside for the grimmer realities of war, and bombs fall on this side of the Atlantic...
Although it was started only last May, the Auxiliary Fire Company is an integral part of the University's Air Raid Precautions system and receives all orders through the College switchboard which is controlled by the ARP during air raids...