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A Siren Tour was a night-time mission by the RAF Bomber Command, mostly in northern Cambridgeshire, involving three or four two-engined fast bomber aircraft, to set the German air-raid sirens off in the middle of the night, so waking up the whole German town at three o'clock in the morning.
A British air raid siren from the Second World War. All clear is the signal, generally given by an air raid siren, which indicates that an air raid or other hazard has finished and that it is safe for civilians to leave their shelters; it is commonly used in radios as well.
These sirens, mostly built by Carter, Gents, Castle Castings, and Secomak (now Klaxon Signal Co.), have 10 and 12 ports to create a minor third interval (B ♭ and D ♭ notes) and are probably the world's most recognised World War II air raid siren sound. Recordings of British sirens are often dubbed into movies set in countries which never ...
Hull was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. [1] Of a population of approximately 320,000 at the beginning of the war, approximately 152,000 were made homeless as a result of bomb destruction or damage. [3] Overall almost 1,200 people were killed and 3,000 injured by air raids. [4]
Existing volunteer air raid precaution associations were forced to merge with RLB. In 1939 the RLB became a Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization), while in 1944 it became an affiliated organization of the Nazi Party. RLB was dissolved by the Allied Powers after the end of World War II.
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The LSP belonged to the Technical Auxiliary Police together with the Technical Emergency Service and the volunteer fire departments. [4] It was subordinate to the local civil defense commander (the local state or municipal police commissioner), and under the direct leadership of the local protection police commander (Kommandeuer der Schutzpolizei), who exercised tactical command during air ...
3 June: Operation Paula was Nazi Germany's "single attempt at strategic air warfare during the French campaign." [12]: 7 7-8 June: French Air Force raid is the first air raid against Berlin. [citation needed] 9 June: Germany attains air supremacy in the Battle of France. June 11/12: First British bombing of Italy with a raid on Turin. [2] [specify]