air raid alarm
air raid alert

The air raid alarm went on so frequently that people ignored it.

"The sound you're hearing is another air raid alarm.

The fires were finally extinguished but an air raid alarm was sounded at 21:17.

Air raid alarms went off in the winter/spring of 1940 as enemy bombers passed overhead.

There had been no air raid alarm.

When the air raid alarm came at 21.30, U-735 eventually succeeded in leaving the harbour, having had trouble starting her diesels.

"You-all of yo stopped to grab papers when the air raid alarm went off?

'Observers' watched for enemy planes, and sounded the air raid alarm with sirens.

On board Arizona, the ship's air raid alarm went off about 07:55, and the ship went to general quarters soon thereafter.

An air raid alarm suddenly sounded.

Some of the children began to slip up the stairs and edge toward the sunlight outside the building when an air raid alarm sent them dashing back.

They take a walk around the ruins, and when another air raid alarm is sounded, they run amongst more ruins and hide from the chaos.

From 1944 the Müden population endured frequent air raid alarms, in response to British bombers attacking the nearby airfield at Faßberg.

Authorities decided that they could not wait any longer for positive confirmation of enemy activity and a full scale air raid alarm was sounded throughout the city of Perth.

An air raid alarm was issued at 00:24 and 24 aircraft of the 4th Air Regiment began to take off three minutes later to patrol over northern Kyūshū.

South Korean forces, fearing an attack, set off air raid alarms in the western suburbs of Seoul, the capital, and scrambled six fighters to intercept the Northern plane.

Then, onto Hammersmith Palais, London's big dance hall where Eric Sevareid was set up and remarked, "There was an air raid alarm, as you know, 15 minutes ago.

On March 22, 1945 in Kolin, Funke required an immediate operation for intestine damage but the procedure could not be executed as it was during an air raid alarm and he passed away.

Henry was also responsible for ordering the temporary cessation of monthly air raid alarm testing during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis at the request of the California Disaster Council, to avoid public panic.

The daily unit operational occurrence reports do not record any actual tracking of enemy aircraft although the unit had the distinction of being responsible for the first genuine air raid alarm for the city of Perth.

Sculptor Dov Feigin produced "Wheat Sheaves" in 1956, and Dadaist Janco painted "Soldiers", "Air raid Alarms" and "Maabarot" (jerry-built communities housing new Jewish immigrants in the 1950s).

His university was forced to move, first to a mountaintop, then to remote western China, where Empson slept on a blackboard for lack of a bed, where "air raid alarms sounded" constantly and where students required armed escorts to ward off bandits.

Three air raid alarms were sounded during the morning of 7 October because the Yugoslav Air Force deployed as many as 30 to 40 combat jets in the Zagreb area, and numerous tip-offs of imminent air raids were received from Yugoslav military bases.

In late April Pattle was suffering from influenza, and his condition had worsened to a point where Sqn/Ldr Edward Jones, acting as Wing Commander, ordered him to reduce his flying and to only take off only when the air raid alarm was sounded.

During much of the rally, Belgrade was under an air raid alert.

While playing the London Palladium, an air raid alert sounded.

The arrival of the police a few minutes before had effectively cleared the street, and the air raid alert would keep them from returning for a while.

The first Hudson's report was not received by radio because the Fall River station was shut down at that time for an air raid alert.

The Japanese did not wait long to exploit their advantage-at 1230 on 10 December, the air raid alert was broadcast at Cavite.

The 45th arrived in Kunming on Christmas Eve only to stay on a mountain side for several hours due to a Japanese air raid alert.

At nearly 08:00, the radar operator in Hiroshima determined that the number of planes coming in was very small-probably not more than three-and the air raid alert was lifted.

Successes like these were not always the order of the day: at Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia on 24 September 1943 a flock of birds sitting atop the antenna triggered an air raid alert.