Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew to England and spent the next two years attending British universities. He was in London during all of the worst bombing raids and the famous fire raid of December 29 that practically destroyed the "city...
...Houses and auxiliary police are preparing for the 30 minute test air raid and blackout which is scheduled for next Thursday evening. Leverett has already announced a trial blackout to be held Wednesday, and the other Houses are laying plans for similar trials, according to Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House and chief warden of the House precinct...
...least 20 of the first class saw action in the fleet's recent raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, and about nine are now stationed with MacArthur on Bataan Peninsula...
...Cambridge Committee on Public Safety has announced another surprise daytime practice raid, to take place next Sunday. Last week's test worked out very well all over Cambridge except in the Harvard precincts, Major Ralph W. Robart, Cambridge Chief Warden, announced early in the week...
This first test was particularly unsuccessful in the Yard because not one of the 400 Wardens was to be found during the raid, which lasted from 3 until 5 o'clock. 34 incidents occurred in the entire city, and Harvard's share of these was peculiarly neglected by those responsible, said Major Robart...