Air raid

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Contents 1 War 1.1 Attack 1.2 Defense 2 Fiction and popular culture

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Air raid refers to an attack by aircraft against ground targets. The term is generally used for strategic bombing attacks, while airstrike is used for smaller tactical attacks.

[edit] War

[edit] Attack

• Bombing of Guernica (April 26, 1937), the first air attack aimed at civilians
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), a Japanese Navy air raid on Navy Air Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• First air raid on Singapore (1941), a Japanese Navy bomber attack
• Easter Sunday Raid (1942), a Japanese Navy air attack on Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
• Air raids on Australia, 1942–43, a list of Japanese air attacks on Australia during World War II
• Air raids on Japan (1942–1945), a list of Allied air attacks on Japan during World War II
• Air Raid on Bari (1943), a Nazi bomber attack on Allied shipping in Bari, Italy
• Lookout Air Raid (1942), a small-scale Japanese incendiary attack on a forest in Oregon
• Raid on Taipei, also known as Taipei Air Raid (1945), a US bomber attack targeting Japanese government facilities, collaterally killing more than 3,000 Chinese civilians
• Ouadi Doum air raid (1986), a French attack against a Libyan airbase

[edit] Defense

• Air Raid Precautions (1924), a UK organisation for the protection of citizens from bombing attacks
• Air-raid shelter, a structure for protection from bombing attacks
  • Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter, a World War II–era shelter in Ipswich, England, currently a museum
• Civil defense siren, also known as air raid siren; a signal warning of impending air raid
  • Chrysler air raid siren (1952), a six horn warning siren powered by a 180 horsepower (130 kW) V-8 engine

[edit] Fiction and popular culture

• Air Raid Wardens (1943), a Laurel and Hardy comedy film
• Air Raid, (1977) short story written by John Varley. A story that later provided the basis for the 1989 film Millenium.
• Air Raid (video game) (1984), a rare game released for the Atari 2600
• Air Raid (Transformers) (1986, 1994, 2004), the name of three characters in the Transformers universes
• Icky-Poo Air Raid (1996), an album by the band Bis released in Thailand
• Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) (2000), a song by Limp Bizkit from their album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

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