air raids
Bombers striking cities
Air raids are attacks by military aircraft dropping bombs on ground targets, especially cities.
The term evokes World War II civilian bombardment: London endured nightly air raids during the Blitz.
An air-raid shelter provides protection during such attacks.
The phrase appears in historical contexts more than contemporary military usage.
- bombingAttack with explosives
- strategic bombingAirstrikes against enemy capacity
- blitzSwift, overwhelming offensive
- blackoutComplete power loss
- duck and coverEmergency protective posture
antiaircraft · civilians · civilian casualties · all-clear · incendiary · siren · attack · war zone · missiles · alarms · shelter · offensive · warplanes · night bombing · targets · explosions · craters · World War II
- Air ForcesLuftwaffe, RAF, squadrons, airmen, fighter jets
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- war violencemassacre, bombardment, bombing, shelling, combat
- Air Combatairstrikes, fighter pilot, bombing run, combat aircraft, bomb run
- Ukraine WarUkraine, Kherson, Mariupol, Kyiv, Donetsk
air raidsground assault
Attack by foot soldiers
ground offensive · land invasion · ground attack · naval bombardment · amphibious assault
air raidsair defense
Protection from aerial attack
anti-aircraft defense · air raid shelters · civil defense · defensive positions · air cover
air raidsceasefire
Agreed halt to fighting
armistice · peace · peacetime · humanitarian aid · relief efforts
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