Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other branches of the war effort were being manned by undergraduates taking some sort of training, whether for Air Raid Warden or for the motor transport divisions, where convoy driving and messenger work is taught...
Many answer the call for blood donations, and a reasonable number of men are stationed in the control centers for the Air Raid control centers where reports are handled; some have volunteered as spotters reporting to the Interceptor Command
Only four entries were scheduled to participate in the trial, but with the air raid signal, the lights in all twelve of the courtyard entries started to go out to the accompaniment of yells from the upper windows...
...raid on Soerabaja--the third major assault on this vital base--cost the Nipponese five bombers out of 21 sent over...
...read the newspaper accounts of the raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands last week, you'd think the Navy had won a second Battle of Trafalgar. This is not to underestimate the significance of the American stroke, but merely to suggest--green headlines and eight-star editions to the contrary--that, compared to the Jap massacre at Singapore and the forty-day annihilation of France, the disabling of a pair of coaling stations can hardly be considered a major triumph...