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air raid

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air raid
n.
An attack by military aircraft, especially when armed with bombs and rockets.
air raid
n
(Military)
a.  an attack by hostile aircraft
b.  (as modifier) an air-raid shelter
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Noun1.air raid - an attack by armed planes on a surface targetair raid - an attack by armed planes on a surface target
air attack
foray, maraud, raid - a sudden short attack
Translations
air raid
n → Luftangriff m
air raid n → incursione f aerea
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1914: Britain and France declare war on Turkey 1937: The Air Raid Precautions Bill was introduced in the Commons.
On this day by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Edgar and Alice Pinder and their four children, aged 16 to 24, were killed just after 6am on July 27, 1941, during the final fatal air raid on Solihull, when a high explosive bomb was dropped near gas works.
Appeal over deaths by Birmingham Mail (England)
The only hooters you'll hear' THE air raid warning system has come into full operation in Britain.
70 YEARS AGO by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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