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  2. Category:Air raid shelters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Air raid shelters in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Air raid shelter - Wikipedia

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    Prior to World War II, in 1924, an Air Raid Precautions Committee was set up in the United Kingdom. For years, little progress was made with shelters because of the apparently irreconcilable conflict between the need to send the public underground for shelter and the need to keep them above ground for protection against gas attacks.

  4. Civil defense in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, World War II saw an even greater use of rationing, recycling, and anti-saboteur vigilance than was seen in World War I. As the threat of air raids or invasions in the United States seemed less likely during the war, the focus on the Civil Defense Corps, air raid drills, and patrols of the border declined but the other efforts continued.

  5. Duck and cover - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, regardless of if a nuclear attack on a city is of the surface or air-burst variety or a mixture of both, the advice to shelter in place, in the interior of well-built homes, or if available, fallout shelters, as suggested in the film Duck and Cover, will drastically reduce one's chance of absorbing a hazardous dose of radiation. [123]

  6. Amiriyah shelter bombing - Wikipedia

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    The Amiriyah Shelter Bombing [N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".

  7. Category:Air raid shelters - Wikipedia

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    Air raid shelters in the United States (7 P) Pages in category "Air raid shelters" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.

  8. Stockport Air Raid Shelters - Wikipedia

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    The Stockport Air Raid Shelters are a system of almost 1 mile (1.6 km) of underground air-raid shelters dug under Stockport, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Manchester, during World War II to protect local inhabitants during air raids. Four sets of underground air raid shelter tunnels for civilian use were dug into the red sandstone rock below the ...

  9. Wickham Park Air Raid Shelters - Wikipedia

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    The Brisbane City Council built the concrete shelters at Wickham Park as air raid shelters in 1942. [1] On 7 December 1941, the United States of America entered World War II following the bombing of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft. England and its Commonwealth had been at war with Germany since ...