PASSIVE DEFENSE IN SCHOOLS IN BOTOȘANI COUNTY, AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II Cover Image

PASSIVE DEFENSE IN SCHOOLS IN BOTOȘANI COUNTY, AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II
PASSIVE DEFENSE IN SCHOOLS IN BOTOȘANI COUNTY, AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II

Author(s): Camelia Diaconu
Subject(s): Education, Security and defense, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: defense; war; mobilization; school; plan; training;

Summary/Abstract: The protection of the population and of the material values determines, during the war, the necessity of the establishment of special units of passive defense. The intervention units had as missions: timely prevention of the population about the approach of the enemy air attack; camouflage as well as possible the ground objectives for aircraft sightings; limiting the effects of enemy bombing; ensuring the lifting and care of wounded or gassed victims; removing unexploded bombs and defusing them; extinguishing or limiting large fires; lifting and removing large rubble; repairing buildings damaged by fire or bombing; raising camps for evacuees and victims or for sheltering materials.

  • Issue Year: XII/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 121-133
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English