| Irving claimed that it was standard practice at the time that air raid shelters should have doors which opened outwards. |
| 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. |
| The air force launched a massive air raid with high explosive bombs on the shipyard. |
| Leon's father, Noel, was only three years old when Spalding Avenue, where they lived, was struck during an air raid. |
| Sara has a mostly miserable time at a succession of schools, and Feige is killed in the last air raid of the war. |
| It was the responsibility of air raid wardens to ensure that everybody had been issued with a gas mask. |
