Definition of "air-raid"

Regularly after working during the day he went to the ARP post at night to be on call should there be an air-raid.

2003, Nicholas Webley, A Taste of Wartime Britain, page 72

This street, Alton Avenue, was on a slope... air-raid shelters had been dug into all the back gardens so that you had to stoop and go down a couple of steps to enter...my parents told one particular family if there was an air-raid they could share our shelter.

2011, Stephen Wade, Air-Raid Shelters of World War II: Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz, page 38

He notes also WWII indications in England that air-raids seemed to have less effect on children than on adults (Vernon 1941, cited in Cairns 1996) and that older children seemed to find the raids thrilling (Crosby 1986, cited in Cairns 1996).

2014, Abigail Stahl McNamee, Breathing the Same Air: Children, Schools, and Politics in Northern Ireland, page 96

In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him.

2011, Stephen Wade, Air-Raid Shelters of World War II: Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz, page 38

Those in charge of factories, offices and apartment blocks were to appoint and train air-raid wardens.

2007, Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, page ii

The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it.

2008, Frank E. Wismer, War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain's Memoir from Baghdad, page 139