On 7 September 1940, the German air force launched a eight-month ... The rising and falling wail of an air raid siren sounded when enemy aircraft were sighted in the area. It went on for two ...

An archive recording of an air-raid in progress ... the 'Blitz' (from the German word 'blitzkrieg', meaning 'lightning war'). When enemy planes were spotted air raid sirens would sound.

after a German Luftwaffe air raid, 7 May 1941 At 10:40 on the evening of Easter Tuesday 1941 air raid sirens sounded across Belfast, sending people across the city scrambling for safety - in one ...

Violet Sloan in her uniform when she was a volunteer for the Air Raid Precautions ... the air raid sirens during the Belfast Blitz in 1941. Almost 1,000 people were killed when German bombers ...