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  2. Chrysler Air-Raid Siren - Wikipedia

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    The Chrysler Air Raid Siren is an outdoor warning siren produced during the Cold War era that has an output of 138 dB(C) at 100 feet. It was known as the Chrysler Bell Victory Siren during its first generation, which was between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is reputed to be the loudest air raid siren ever produced ...

  3. Federal Signal 3T22 - Wikipedia

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    A 3T22A is three phase, while a 3T22B is single phase. The siren was mainly used for air raid warnings during the Cold War era and weather warnings after the war. In the early 1990s, the siren's production was stopped when it was replaced with the newer 2001-SRN, which can reach 126db (also measured 100 feet away), hence the name.

  4. List of civil defense sirens - Wikipedia

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    Chrysler Air-Raid Siren; Sentry Siren; SiraTone This page was last edited on 5 August 2024, at 16:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  5. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids (air-raid sirens) during World War II, they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters, such as tornadoes (tornado sirens).

  6. Category:Sirens - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sirens" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Chrysler Air-Raid Siren; Civil defense siren; F. Federal Signal 3T22;

  7. List of sirens built by Alerting Communicators of America

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    This siren is similar to Federal Signal's Thunderbolt series. Only a single unit remains in service in Milwaukee, WI. Screamers Electro-Mechanical 2, 5, 7.5, 10 8, 9, 9/12, 10/12 1968–1994 Omni Directional 102–115 dB at 100 ft. Series of small vertical sirens, comparable to Federal Signal Corporation's vertical sirens. Sentry 95

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  9. Dodge WC series - Wikipedia

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    The name of this article would at first suggest a focus on models that are indeed called Dodge WC-numbers, either 4x4 or 6x6. However, the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps' central Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) Supply Catalog, covering the WC series, conveys both by its title, "SNL G-657 – Master Parts List, Dodge Trucks", as well as by the explicit types list on its second page, that (because of ...