air raid protection

Many were casualties of Allied bombing, as they received poor air raid protection.

Its duties included coastal defense, air raid protection and defensive fortification construction.

During the Second World War this tunnel was used for air raid protection rooms.

He was also involved in grant schemes to deprived areas, rural water supplies and air raid protection of essential engineering services.

WERS was to provide communications in connection with air raid protection, and communications during times of natural disaster.

Railway arches and subways were also used in the UK for air raid protection at all times during World War II.

As part of the air raid protection scheme for London, there was an anti-aircraft battery (designated N16) on former heathland just south of the Greyhound pub.

During the war the building became the central 'Air Raid Protection' telephone exchange and there is still a 'bomb proof' concrete partition between the ground and first floor.

More than 19,000 of Leuna's workers were members of the air raid protection organization which operated over 600 radar-directed guns (the fire-fighting force consisted of 5,000 men and women).

A class doing the Home Front, for example, could borrow a box containing gas masks, ARP (Air Raid Protection) equipment, a ration book and other associated period objects.

The first document was a letter dated 2 January, from the under state secretary at the Air Ministry, regarding the distribution of gas masks to the Reichsluftschutzbund, the Air Raid Protection organisation.

After the Second World War started, the Government of Hong Kong built a network of air raid protection tunnels in order to prepare for a possible war with the Japanese Army.