air-raids
Bombers overhead, scatter
Air-raids are military attacks delivered by aircraft, typically involving bombing of ground targets.
The term emerged with aerial warfare in the early twentieth century and carries associations with civilian terror—sirens, shelters, blackouts: London endured nightly air-raids during the Blitz.
The singular air-raid usually appears as a modifier: air-raid shelter, air-raid siren, air-raid warden.
Attack with explosives
- blitzSwift, overwhelming offensive
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- bombardmentSustained projectile assault
- sortieArmed raid outward
incendiary · explosive · firebombing · strafing · dogfight · antiaircraft · flak · ack-ack
Protected place or structure
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- sirenWailing alert device
- warningAlert about danger
- blackoutComplete power loss
evacuation · curfew · refuge · basement · underground · Anderson · Morrison · all-clear
Swift intensive attack
- LondonEngland's capital city
- DresdenSaxon capital city
- CoventryWest Midlands manufacturing city
- GuernicaBasque town attacked aerially
Tokyo · Hiroshima · Nagasaki · Rotterdam · V2 · doodlebug · WWII · firestorm
Broken building fragments
- craterImpact or volcanic basin
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
damage · fires · collapse · devastation · aftermath · reconstruction · rebuilding · salvage
bombing
Attack with explosives
- blitzSwift, overwhelming offensive
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- bombardmentSustained projectile assault
sortie · incendiary · explosive · firebombing · strafing · dogfight · antiaircraft · flak · ack-ack · squadron
shelter
Protected place or structure
blackout · evacuation · curfew · refuge · basement · underground · Anderson · Morrison · all-clear · warden
Blitz
Swift intensive attack
Guernica · Tokyo · Hiroshima · Nagasaki · Rotterdam · V2 · doodlebug · WWII · firestorm · Hamburg
rubble
Broken building fragments
- craterImpact or volcanic basin
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
ruins · damage · fires · collapse · devastation · aftermath · reconstruction · rebuilding · salvage · demolition
air-raidsground assault
Attack by foot soldiers
ground attack · land invasion · ground offensive · naval bombardment · amphibious assault
air-raidsair defense
Protection from aerial attack
anti-aircraft defense · air-raid shelters · air cover · defensive measures · civil defense
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