Give Me Shelter by David Dorgan
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Overview: The book begins with the background of why Air Raid Precautions came into being during the First World War and how an upsurge of totalitarian governments in Europe with war on their minds set Britain looking ever closer at Europe during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Hoping to avoid a second world war but with some parts of the British Government preparing for the worst the scene was set for the Channel Islands and other places of the British Empire to get ready with their Air Raid Precautions procedures.It covers events in the Channel Islands but Jersey in depth. It tells how the Channel Islands developed their own systems of Air Raid Precautions alongside the British equivalent and how they became organisations in their own right.It describes what equipment was issued, the shelters both private and public, the people and what they did. There are a number of personal accounts of service in the A.R.P. and others who were bombed – one man twice, and a volunteer first aider caught up in a raid with people dying and injured all around him.The air raids on both Jersey’s Capital, St Helier, and Guernsey’s equivalent, St Peter Port, are both included as this was one raid by nine German Heinkel 111 aircraft of the 8th Staffel,1/Gruppe Kampfgescgawder 55 (1/KG 55) based at the airfield at Villacoublay to the south -west of Paris, France. These raids saw the A.R.P. tested
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 17 MB
Overview: The book begins with the background of why Air Raid Precautions came into being during the First World War and how an upsurge of totalitarian governments in Europe with war on their minds set Britain looking ever closer at Europe during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Hoping to avoid a second world war but with some parts of the British Government preparing for the worst the scene was set for the Channel Islands and other places of the British Empire to get ready with their Air Raid Precautions procedures.It covers events in the Channel Islands but Jersey in depth. It tells how the Channel Islands developed their own systems of Air Raid Precautions alongside the British equivalent and how they became organisations in their own right.It describes what equipment was issued, the shelters both private and public, the people and what they did. There are a number of personal accounts of service in the A.R.P. and others who were bombed – one man twice, and a volunteer first aider caught up in a raid with people dying and injured all around him.The air raids on both Jersey’s Capital, St Helier, and Guernsey’s equivalent, St Peter Port, are both included as this was one raid by nine German Heinkel 111 aircraft of the 8th Staffel,1/Gruppe Kampfgescgawder 55 (1/KG 55) based at the airfield at Villacoublay to the south -west of Paris, France. These raids saw the A.R.P. tested
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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