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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...
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    document to prepare air raid shelters. In February 1936 the Home Secretary appointed a technical Committee on Structural Precautions against Air Attack. By November...
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  • William and Air Raid Precautions is the 21st book of children's short stories in the Just William series by Richmal Crompton. This was one of the books...
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    sabotage or air attacks. As the U.S. began mobilizing for the war, anti-aircraft guns were installed, bunkers were built, and air raid precautions were drilled...
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  • 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...
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  • MSc, lately Air Raid Precautions Controller, County of Carmarthen. Coningsby Samuel Johnson, MC, lately Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller...
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  • or serious emergency. During World War II they were often called Air Raid Precautions (ARP) centres. During the Cold War they were also called controls...
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    Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB; "Reich Air Protection League") was a civil defense organization in Nazi Germany in charge of air raid precautions in residential areas and...
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    Postluftschutz (air raid precautions) was to protect the customers, personnel and installations of the DRP from the danger of air raids. The implementation...
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    The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital...
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  • of Production. Sydney Thomas Johnson, lately Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller and Air Raid Precautions Officer, Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire. Bridget...
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    from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020. "Air-Raid Precautions (Approval of Expenditure by Essential Undertakers) (Amendment) (No...
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  • Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol Unit, a Taiwan special forces group Air Raid Precautions, a UK civil defence 1924–1946 Airport reference point, a designated...
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    Britain during World War II. Established by the Home Office in 1935 as Air Raid Precautions (ARP), its name was officially changed to the Civil Defence Service...
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  • summer of 1939, she returned to Canada on holiday. After training in air raid precautions, she returned to London, where she obtained work with the Red Cross...
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    unwilling or unable to join the military joined the Home Guard, the Air Raid Precautions service (ARP), the Auxiliary Fire Service and many other civilian...
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    of office space were destroyed or damaged. As early as June 1935, Air Raid Precautions (ARP) schemes were being put into place across London. The rules...
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  • William Hughes, Air Raid Precautions Controller, Dundee. Major Selwyn Wollaston Humphery, TD, JP, Mayor of Lowestoft and Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller...
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  • for Blackwell's in Oxford, England, in 1938−39; was a member of Air Raid Precautions staff in Dartmouth, Devon, during World War II, and was assistant...
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  • bombing. Luftwaffe commanders planned the raids in response to the increasing effectiveness of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) area bombing offensive against...
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    Britain, to follow once the Luftwaffe had air superiority over the Channel. In September, RAF Bomber Command night raids disrupted the German preparation of...
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    attacks on the city were made, but over 1,500 air raid warnings were issued. According to the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Department approximately 2,300 bombs...
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  • ARP Warden, responsible for enforcing Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom during World War II air raids Warden, the chief royal official of a royal...
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  • October 2020. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 14 January 2021. Air-Raid Precautions (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 1977 (S.I. No. 385 of...
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    During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing...
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  • food shortages. In 1939, the British government formed the National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee (NARPAC) to decide what to do with pets before...
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    the Air Raid Precautions Committee (ARP) was established in 1924 to investigate ways for ensuring the protection of civilians from the danger of air-raids...
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    direct national civil defence, primarily tasked with organising air raid precautions, during the Second World War. The Ministry for Home Security was...
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  • Chairperson of Haughley Parish Council for many years and organised Air Raid Precautions in the village. She campaigned vigorously against the payment of...
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  • Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio...
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