| So the solution of using bombs from the air, an air raid, is not possible in this kind of fighting. |
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| It was the responsibility of air raid wardens to ensure that everybody had been issued with a gas mask. |
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| I was five years old when the war began and I remember the blitz, when we spent so much time in the air raid shelters. |
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| The captured coast watchers were beheaded by the Japanese in retaliation for an American air raid on Betio. |
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| The howling of the sirens, which shriek to announce the beginning and end of each air raid alarm, merge into a single, hair-raising noise. |
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| When the air raid sirens screamed, they left in their apartment building scrambled for the cellar. |
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| Many in earshot of the blast feared the Germans had landed and sought refuge in air raid shelters. |
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| The car was taken back to Berlin and was destroyed during an Allied air raid later in the war. |
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| She grabbed my arm and told me how her house had been hit by a US bomb during an air raid. |
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| Sara has a mostly miserable time at a succession of schools, and Feige is killed in the last air raid of the war. |
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| Leon's father, Noel, was only three years old when Spalding Avenue, where they lived, was struck during an air raid. |
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| Remember that most of the injuries in an air raid are caused not by direct hits by bombs, but by flying fragments of debris or bits of shells. |
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| He had worked as a civil engineer's clerk for British Rail, and was an air raid patrol warden in Haxby during the Second World War. |
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| The air force launched a massive air raid with high explosive bombs on the shipyard. |
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| The mongrel, called Rip, was awarded a Dickin Medal in 1945 after sniffing out dozens of air raid victims during the blitz. |
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| Irving claimed that it was standard practice at the time that air raid shelters should have doors which opened outwards. |
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| In case the Regent's Park buildings should be involved in an air raid, all the poisonous insects and snakes have been destroyed. |
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| Notices telling train passengers what to do in an air raid are being put up in all main line railway stations. |
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| The droning wail of air raid sirens drives the citizens of Tokyo into bomb shelters or into the surrounding countryside. |
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| The enemy bombers were shot down and a long siren wail told residents the air raid was over and that emergency rescue work must begin at once. |
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| Maybury took advantage of their weak expectations for this and arranged an air raid on London, one misty, rainy night. |
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| He was displeased to watch an air raid occur on his cannons, destroying one of them. |
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| The British mission with the Partisans proved powerless to restrain them and a British officer sent in to mediate was killed in an air raid. |
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| Civil defense programs consisted of urging families to build fallout shelters and directing the development of community air raid shelters. |
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| It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers. |
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| Suddenly, the lights fizzle out, and all that can be heard are the bombings of an air raid outside. |
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| Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody. |
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| The four recruiting depots have been busy all day, air raid warning tests have been heard across the city this evening, and posters are calling for volunteers for first aid. |
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| When we left, however, there was another air raid on and you could hear the detonations, feel the detonations even rippling through the edge of the city. |
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| Heavy detonations, air raid sirens and the crackle of anti-aircraft fire thundered through Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital faced a second night of attacks. |
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| We demonstrated outside the university library, had an air raid siren going off and held a die-in, and did a banner drop from the 100-metre high clock tower. |
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| As a prelude to this invasion a dummy run had taken place in 1942 when the Allies launched a major air raid on Diepe on the northern coast of France. |
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| Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter. |
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| I remember the air raid drills held in school, the ones where a siren would wail and the teachers would tell us to get down on the floor, under our desks. |
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| A three-minute blast of an air raid siren, and the city vanishes into shelters. |
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| As I floated out to sea, I heard something like an air raid siren coming from the beach. |
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| Many will remember the air raid sirens and emergency measures drills that characterized the era. |
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| Heretics would scurry into their bomb shelters, while air raid sirens warned of incoming bombers. |
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| During one of these times, they had a practice air raid but being a greenhorn, I thought it was the real thing. |
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| On the same day, 8 April 2003, Jordanian journalist Tarek Ayoub from the Al-Jazeera channel was also killed during an American air raid. |
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| Last September, an air raid was conducted against nuclear installations in Syria. |
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| The bishop's home and the adjacent St. Joseph youth centre were reportedly destroyed in the air raid. |
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| In Gordill, situated at the north of the property, 15 school children were killed in an air raid. |
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| A Lebanese boy salvages a blanket from the rubble of a building wrecked by an overnight air raid on Beirut's southern suburbs. |
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| The air raid of 25th March destroyed two-thirds of the manufacturing facilities and half of the buildings, making further production impossible. |
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| The bridge had been bombed in an air raid and we were crossing over some wooden ramps. |
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| Most of the war was spent at Windsor castle, where the princesses learned the art of rolling out of bed and into air raid shelters when the sirens sounded. |
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| The piercing alarms of air raid sirens were signalling an attack. |
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| Among them was the neighbor who had insisted that the air raid shelter be searched for survivors. |
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| Without an Iron Dome defense system, air raid sirens or even bomb shelters, people resign themselves to their fate. |
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| Half an hour after I had returned to my old apartment from Jaffa, an air raid siren went off. |
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| So for us, this air raid siren heralded a new experience, an unwelcome initiation into the conflict. |
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| They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens. |
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| A written record of the event was destroyed in the air raid. |
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| This is because of the danger of their being bombed in an air raid. |
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| In wartime, the amount of stocks in any area might be affected by air raid damage, or the flow of supplies might be reduced temporarily by transport difficulties. |
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| And civil defense programs consisted of urging families to take cover and build fallout shelters and directing the development of community air raid shelters. |
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| A civil air raid siren can be heard in the background. |
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| The pupils sat at wooden desks, used dip pens, slide rules and listened intently tags, carried air masks and taken part in an air raid drill. |
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| I wish the manufacturers of these powerful fireworks would supply us with tin hats and air raid shelters. |
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| Amnesty International has urged the Saudi Arabian authorities to investigate the reported killing of seven civilians in an air raid attack in the Sa'da region of Yemen. |
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| Three days later the prison was hit during an air raid. |
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| Eliot's experiences as an air raid warden in the Blitz power the poem, and he imagines meeting Dante during the German bombing. |
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| The local authority looked into building communal air raid shelters and setting up the necessary rescue and fire services. |
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| Also included are his memories of evacuation, gas masks, air raid shelters, rationing and, finally, the victory celebrations. |
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| In 1940 an air raid badly damaged Washford Bridge and the adjoining pub, The Bridge. |
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| Thousands of Afghans have protested against the United States after an air raid in the country's east a day earlier left at least 15 people dead. |
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| These gave crews practice in navigation and avoiding air defences, and set off air raid alarms which disturbed civilian morale. |
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| A section near the Museum of London was revealed after the devastation of an air raid on 29 December 1940 at the height of the Blitz. |
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| Many were casualties of Allied bombing, as they received poor air raid protection. |
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| This latest air raid on Baghdad should, in fact, have been better prepared, with an attempt to gain consent from neighbouring countries and perhaps also consultation of the Western allies. |
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| In 1942, following the destruction of the Queen's Hall in an air raid, the Hall was chosen as the new venue for the proms. |
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| Both of these structures were destroyed in an air raid. |
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| The latest air raid was on September 29th. |
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| A Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor brings the United States into the war. |
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| In their desperations, the Indians again made unsuccessful attempts to air raid civilian population in West Pakistan. |
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| When the sirens went we used to go to the air raid shelter in Primrose Hill Park. |
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| Their presence over the area meant that the steel plant could not operate fully whilst the air raid sirens were in operation. |
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| Then I heard some doors banging and realized it was the air raid siren. |
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| He doesn't see combat but, recovering in London one night during an air raid, lights were out, he steps in front of a bus with no running lights on Edgeway Road, is knocked cold and there ends his war. |
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| I figured it was an air raid, but Alice knew better. |
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| An air raid siren will sound over central London late on 29 December to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the biggest Blitz raid on the capital. |
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| The alarms are going off, a fire alarm mixed with an air raid siren. |
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| The sirens are sounding, announcing an air raid. |
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| Local air raid wardens were asked to make sure everybody had been issued with a gas mask and people could face fines if they did not wear them. |
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| Stockport Air Raid Shelters uses a mile of underground tunnels, built to accommodate 6,500 people, to illustrate life in the Second World War's air raid shelters. |
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| During the Second World War the air raid warning organisation No 32 Group Carlisle Royal Observer Corps operated in the city centre controlled from RAF Kingstown. |
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| The air raid on the town was one of the first aerial bombings of the war. |
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| Witnesses told Agene France Presse over the weekend that a house used by members of the al-Qaida-linked Shebab militants had been hit in the air raid. |
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| It noted that an air raid carried out near Haditha, to support the movement of friendly forces, while another raid targeted a tactical unit for the IS near Mosul. |
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| Overall, there were 365 air raid alerts, and 77 actual air raids on Birmingham, eight of which were classified as major, meaning at least 100 tons of bombs were dropped. |
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| Should the air raid siren sound at night, young messengers like Jack would be expected to jump out of bed and cycle to their ARP post for instructions. |
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| Made of oiled silk, a gasproof suit that can be packed into a pouch and carried in a handbag offers protection from gas to a person caught in an air raid. |
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| The worst case in Shrewsbury was in 1940, a woman and her two grandchildren were killed when a cottage was destroyed on Ellesmere Road, the only local air raid deaths. |
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