Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These tropical islands in the South Seas motorized their artillery, partly motorized their infantry, improved their coastal batteries, equipped and trained a parachute corps, created fire-fighting brigades, barbed-wired their airfields, built air-raid shelters. They have two cruisers, four (possibly six) destroyers, twelve submarines, other small vessels, plus what Netherlands Navy ships escaped from the home country...
...powerfully built man of 48 crouched in a London air-raid shelter, trembling and sighing like a furnace. After the all-clear, he stubbornly refused to come out. "I'm sorry, girl," he called to his wife, who was upbraiding him, "I can't 'elp it." His neighbors were all amazed by his "cowardice," for he had an excellent record in World...
...that the man had a father who beat his wife & children. (Said the patient: " 'e took a great 'obby in knockin' mother about.") In World War I, the patient had a chance to "retaliate" against his savage father by shooting at Germans. But in an air raid he is helpless, there is no one he can attack. Other troubles helped to break down his morale: 1) his wife; 2) infected teeth...
Physicians treating victims of air-raid neuroses, warned Dr. Crichton-Miller, must examine every detail of their patients' lives and bodies. Examples...
...These air-raid neuroses are usually aggravated by other long-standing troubles. People who are happily married usually behave well under fire; those who are not break down more easily. Of all women, grandmothers do best. But old people with hardening of the arteries or other circulatory diseases are liable to get neuroses...