Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German aviators are pretty good at knocking out Russian airfields (see cut), not so good over cities. Said a German report of Leningrad's air-raid defense after eight weeks of siege: "It is much stronger than that German flyers have experienced over England or anywhere else since the beginning...
Clue to the invasion, supplied by the Somaliland radio: A band of askaris made a raid to steal a flock of sheep and goats, failed...
...hard today. . . . Your wives sometimes stand for hours before stores in order to buy some vegetables. Your children are frequently sent into the country and separated from you for months. . . . Then because necessary hands are not available you have to shovel coal; then at nights go into air-raid protection cellars and, after two hours' sleep, back to hard work. That is the way it is in many cities of the Reich and in some even worse...
Because Dover still gets eight to ten siren warnings daily, the first lesson in 18 months was an air-raid drill: Teacher cried "Get in the cave," and pupils grabbed gas masks, cleared out in 30 seconds. At the second lesson they learned to dive under desks at the word "Shell...
Announced yesterday was the new non-credit course for air raid wardens, which will be given in conjunction first aid instruction from November 18 until the Christmas holidays. According to Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum and chairman of the Conant appointed Defense Committee, the University in trying to lie-in the maintenance force which operates in normal times, with an organization ready for bombings or mob action...