Nuisance raid

During World War II, both the Allied and Axis powers used nuisance raids to divert the attention of military defenses from raids occurring elsewhere, to attack "targets of opportunity" such as trains, convoys and troop movements and to keep the air-raid sirens sounding, thus preventing civilian factory workers and resting troops from gaining any meaningful sleep.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Zandvoort, Reinard Willem (1957). Wartime English: Materials for a Linguistic History of World War II. J. B. Wolters. p. 165. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
^ Hugo, Richard (17 June 1992). The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 100. ISBN 9780393308600. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
^ Lowe, Keith (2007). Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943. Scribner. p. 229. ISBN 9780743269001. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

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