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Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was the first of two feature films starring the duo for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In September 1935, four years before WW2 began, British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, published a circular entitled Air Raid Precautions (ARP) inviting local authorities to make plans to protect their people in event of a war. Such plans included building public air raid shelters.
ARP control centres would sound the air raid sirens and wardens would marshal people into the shelters and then watch out for the fall of any bombs within their sector – often done during air raids and therefore highly dangerous.
Learn about the Air Raid Wardens Service, gas masks, fire-watchers, shelters and blackout in the Second World War. See photographs and objects from the Imperial War Museums collection.
During a raid, wardens were responsible for monitoring and reporting bomb damage, and for helping to coordinate the response of other civil defence services. These eight objects are just some of the things an air raid warden might have needed during the Blitz.
Civilian Defense & Air Raid Wardens - World War II American Experience. It’s 1940, a year prior to Pearl Harbor being attacked by Japan and the U.S. becoming involved in the World War II conflict.
Learn how the British government prepared the country for air raids in the late 1930s and the role of the Air Raid Wardens Service. Find out about the different types of shelters, gas masks, fire watching and other measures to survive the Blitz.
