Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...
...people of Berlin. He admitted that the inherent tendency of the Japanese to suppress their emotions might result in a violent outburst of jitters, but stated that, the Japs have proved their courage in the harrowing experiences of the 1923 earthquake, which Reischauer classed as "worse than any air raid...
Reischauer recalls that as early as 1937, air raid drills were carried on in Tokio and Yokahama, and that the raid wardens of the capital city were especially severe in enforcing blackouts. "I do not know of any country that has prepared so meticulosuly for raids," he stated
Should an air-raid siren sound "while you're watching a major-league baseball game, don't leave the ball park. A sticker on the back of your seat will tell you what to do. If you are to move at all, red and green arrows will direct you beneath the stands...
Most of the police and air raid wardens on duty during such an emergency will not be acquainted with the officers of the University and will have orders to stop anyone abroad during a blackout who does not have positive and speedy means of identification...