English

Noun

air-raid ‎(plural air-raids)

1. (often attributive) Alternative form of air raid
   • 2003, Nicholas Webley, A Taste of Wartime Britain, ISBN 1854182137, page 72:

     Regularly after working during the day he went to the ARP post at night to be on call should there be an air-raid.

   • 2011, Stephen Wade, Air-Raid Shelters of World War II: Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz, ISBN 1848843275, page 38:

     This street, Alton Avenue, was on a slope... air-raid shelters had been dug into all the back gardens so that you had to stoop and go down a couple of steps to enter...my parents told one particular family if there was an air-raid they could share our shelter.

   • 2014, Abigail Stahl McNamee, Breathing the Same Air: Children, Schools, and Politics in Northern Ireland, ISBN 1631353136, page 96:

     He notes also WWII indications in England that air-raids seemed to have less effect on children than on adults (Vernon 1941, cited in Cairns 1996) and that older children seemed to find the raids thrilling (Crosby 1986, cited in Cairns 1996).

   • 2011, Stephen Wade, Air-Raid Shelters of World War II: Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz, ISBN 1848843275, page 38:

     In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him.

   • 2007, Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, ISBN 1861977743, page ii:

     Those in charge of factories, offices and apartment blocks were to appoint and train air-raid wardens.

   • 2008, Frank E. Wismer, War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain's Memoir from Baghdad, ISBN 1596271035, page 139:

     The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it.