Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor came as a disappointment to Mr. Hull, not as a surprise. Pearl Harbor baffled him-not the raid, but the somnolence of the U.S. commanders in the face of his repeated warnings...
...raid was small but it was significant. Boulogne, which in 1803-05 was to be a jumping-off spot for Napoleon's invasion of England, bristles with protective armament. If a handful of men could thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...American" Day will come to Harvard on May 17 in the form of ceremonies in the Stadium that Sunday afternoon. The Corporation has granted the use of the Stadium to the Cambridge Defense Council for demonstrating air raid precaution and first aid techniques...
...past, Army and civilian defense officials have feared that use of the sirens would cause the public unnecessary alarm at first, while their continued use would cause indifference leading eventually to failure to heed the warning in the event of a real raid...
...test on Sunday is, therefore, intended to determine if people are capable of making the distinction between the test signal and the real signal without becoming panicky and without disturbing the air raid workers' practice. Consequently, Sunday's warning will consist of a series of three short blasts repeated for two minutes as contrasted with a series of five blasts, which would signify an actual raid...