In this country, Boy Scouts learned the silhouettes of enemy bombers, to identify them and rush people to shelters in case of raids that never came.īut not until Augdid America and the world realize there was a weapon so horrible that one bomb could destroy a whole city at once, and poison it for years afterward. In World War II, the citizens of London crowded into subway tunnels as Nazi aircraft and missiles attacked night after night.
In World War I, troops on the muddy, stationary Western front existed beneath such shelters for months, at all times of the year. In America's Civil War, particularly in the last months when Petersburg was under siege, dug-in soldiers on both sides built "bomb-proofs" with ceilings of heavy logs and earth to shield against plunging mortar fire. Ever since war makers invented weapons that go up in the air, then come down and go boom, defenders have been trying to protect themselves against death from the sky.
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