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Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s and 30s, with the Raid Wardens' Service set up in 1937 to report on bombing incidents. [ 1 ]
Ministry of Home Security poster used during the 'Phoney War'. The Ministry of Home Security was a British government department established in 1939 to direct national civil defence, primarily tasked with organising air raid precautions, during the Second World War.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:40, 31 January 2013: 758 × 800 (73 KB): Fæ {{Information |description = {{en|''Air Raid Precautions and Civil Defence in Wartime Britain, 1942''<br/> A woman pulls closed the blackout curtains in her home before going to bed.}} |author = Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer |date...
A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator after an airstrike on Saint-Malo, France in 1944. An airstrike, air strike, or air raid [1] is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones.
A Finnish poster urging all citizens to participate in air raid precautions and civil defence work. In February 1944, the Soviet Union launched three massive bombing raids against Helsinki. The aim was to break the Finnish fighting spirit and to force the Finns to the peace table.
As early as July 1939, Public Information Leaflet No 2 (part of the Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) training literature) warned of the need for popular discipline to ensure that the blackout regulations were fully enforced during the blackout periods. [7] Blackout regulations were imposed on 1 September 1939, before the declaration of war.
Ita Ekpenyon (1899–1951) was a Nigerian teacher and actor who was also the only known black Air Raid Precautions (ARP) warden in the United Kingdom. Ekpenyon was a teacher in Nigeria but came to London to study law. A speaker of the Efik language, he contributed to a textbook that was used by colonial authorities in Nigeria.
English: Air Raid Precautions in Central London, England, UK, 1941 A view of the King Charles I statue in Whitehall, showing the precautions taken to protect it from damage by air raids. The statue itself has been covered in a timber frame, sandbagged and then covered in corrugated iron.