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New air raid shelters made of concrete tubes. A workman chipping the entrance out of one of the tubular shelters. The shelter will be reached through the smaller hole in foreground. The trench in background will contain further tubes through which the occupants of the first can escape if the entrance to the first tube is blocked.

Air raid shelters for wardens spring up. A new concrete wardens' shelter just completed at Tibbett's Corner, one of the busiest junctions on the London-Portsmouth road. The sign commemorates the fact that this was once a notorious spot for highwaymen.

Air raid shelters at Royal Palaces - protection for sentries. Two types of air raid shelter at the lodge gates of St. James's Palace. The steel shelter is for the sentry. That on right is the Anderson type for householders.

' U.S,soldiers scurry to shelter. Infantrymen of the 3rd US Army scurry toward the shelter of their command post in battle-torn Sinz, Germany. At the time this picture was made, the town was still under constant bombardment. Sinz, captured February 8, 1945, is about 15 miles southeast of Luxemburg. ' Infanteristen van de 3e US Army vluchten naar de schuilplaats van hun commandopost in het door de strijd ...

Fleet Street's first portable air raid shelter. The portable air raid shelter being unloaded in Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street - newspaper centre of London.

Verenigde Staten: Winter shelter for front line troops. Members of a combat engineering battalion supporting the Eighth U.S. Infantry Division erect a Winter shelter for troops on the Western Front during the first snowfall of the Winter.

Air raid precautions in Prague - American legation's bombproof shelter. Workmen busy building the bombproof shelter, with the American legation buildings in the background.

Croydon families go back to the shelters. After their longest day, having gone to the rest centre at 6.30 am, and so through the day, which included breakfast, lunch tea and supper, their mother put them to bed at 10,30. Violet May Stevens was a year old whem the 4,000 lb bomb fell. Her sister Uoyce was not yet born.

Great bomb proof shelter built around Addis Ababa radio station. A native at work on the bomb proof shelter under European supervision.

Rebel snipers in bomb-proof shelters survive 'red' air raid. A complicated bomb proof dug-out sheltering rebel snipers during a bomb attack on a village near Segovia, during a communist attack on insurgent front battle lines in the Guaderrama Mountains. Ruins of a motor lorry hit by a bomb are seen in foreground.