Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best individual air raid shelter...
...token raid. Though Aruba and Curaçao are flyspecks on the map, their refineries are two of the largest in the world. Only last week the State Department announced that U.S. troops had been sent to garrison the islands at the invitation of The Netherlands Government...
...four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet had raided the Marshall Islands with devastating effect. It could, as it did last week, draw off most of Britain's effective naval and air strength in one direction-the perfect precondition for invasion...
...From them Japan could raid the supply lines of Suez and India...
...Defense Corps includes air-raid wardens, decontamination squads, auxiliary police and firemen, many another defense category. Instructors, mostly city policemen and firemen, now get their training at the Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. So far, out of 5,000 needed, 508 have been trained. Under the new plan, training centers will be expanded to seven. Legionnaires will be selected to attend and establish State schools until each State has at least one. It will be up to the Legion to finance the State schools, add other training centers at all of the Legion's 11,780 posts...