Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Air raid sirens were placed on the top of tall buildings - often police stations or similar - or on the top of poles if no suitable building could be found. In cities the sirens were powered ...

At 9pm, at the garden of remembrance on Coatham Road - opposite the war memorial and where the club used to stand - the air raid siren will wail, just as it did on October 21, 1941. Then ...

In the early hours of March 10, 1945, she climbed a nearby mountain while an air raid siren blared. When she looked in the direction of Tokyo, she saw the area a bright glowing red. “Please save ...

Sirens sounded at 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) for the mandatory street evacuation drills, which effectively shut towns and cities including its capital Taipei for 30 minutes. An “air raid alert ...