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Mildred Donsbach, director, leads the children to a shelter room after the raid alarm is given during an air raid drill at the East 73rd St. Jones Center, January 8, 1942.
Photo: Tom Sande for the AP
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Mildred Donsbach, director, leads the children to a shelter room after the raid alarm is given during an air raid drill at the East 73rd St. Jones Center, January 8, 1942.
Photo: Tom Sande for the AP
Air raid drill at National Geographic Society
(Myron Davis. 1942)
Silence in the streets of Taipei during an air raid drill in northern Taiwan on June 7, 1965
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"Midwest College Stages Air Raid Drill" Lindenwood College Women's School at St. Charles, MO, In their bomb-proof shelter, one of the heading pipe tunnels that form a network under the campus, during an air raid drill. College authorities explained that the drill was purely educational, but gave explicit instructions on what to do in the event of actual danger" 1-9-1942
Bustling 42nd & Fifth just before a simulated air raid, June 14, 1954.
Photo: Associated Press
Lieut. James A. Hoey of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 demonstrates the art of sliding down a firehouse pole to some of the female volunteers studying measures of air raid protection on December 16, 1941.
Then Jean Kelly volunteered to take a turn.
Photos: Charles Kenneth Lucas for the AP
Times Square during a civil defense exercise, May 6, 1958. It was part of a nationwide Cold War drill to practice in case of a nuclear attack.
Mayor Robert Wagner (left) and Robert E. Condon, the city's Civil Defense director, are the grim-faced officials getting updates shortly after 10:30 a.m. A take-cover signal—"a three-minute glissando of sirens"—had just sounded and the city fell eerily silent. The drill, called Operation Alert 1958, was the fifth annual civil defense test. "The public went peaceably and swiftly enough to shelter, and all non-essential traffic stopped on cue," wrote The NY Times. "However, the drill seemed to be quietly endured but not taken seriously." Some people failed to heed the sirens. In Times Square, "coffee-drinkers sitting at a big plate-glass window in a cafeteria had a perfect view of the proceedings, despite the fact that civil defense instructions adjure people seeking shelter to stay away from windows."
Photo: Patrick A. Burns for the NY Times via NY Times Archives
Demonstration Civil Defense drill in Toledo, Ohio
(Walter Sanders. 1953)