Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first air raid precautions course ever to be given by any University in this country will be held at Harvard between November 13 and the Christmas vacation for students, Faculty members and employees, the University Committee on Civilian Defense announced yesterday...
According to Donald Scott, coordinator of defense committees at the University, the purpose of the course will be to provide members of Harvard College with a working knowledge of first aid and fire-fighting so that, in the event of an air raid on Cambridge, they could make the University an entirely self-sufficient district until local professional forces arrived on the scene...
...course itself will consist of 15 hours of lectured on the air raid warden's duties and ten hours of first aid given under the auspices of the Cambridge Red Cross. The first aid part of the course need not be taken by those who have previously had equivalent training, and the work can be studied either simultaneously or later in the College year...
...headphones and mouthpiece, peers through the glass, dispatching his squadron: "Hello, C for Charlie [name of the plane ]. You may taxi up and take off." C for Charlie trundles with a roar into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew of six. Theirs is an ominous journey-through cotton-wool clouds, across rivers like threads of dirty tinsel, above the grey, night-hung earth. The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone...
Target's cast is unlisted, but some are recognizable, others known: Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; "Speedy" Powell, the blond, curly-topped Wing Commander (O.B.E., D.S.O.), who led the first over-the-Alps raid on Venice; the rugged Group-Captain (D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar), a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The crew of F for Freddie, which devoted three months to making the film, have made more than 200 flights over Germany...