Were there sirens in World War 1?

Answer 1

There was little danger of air raids in the US during WWII. Aircraft of that era lacked the range to fly from Europe or Japan, drop bombs, and return home. The only possibility was a raid by carrier aircraft. Germany had no aircraft carriers. Japan did, but they had very short range compared to US carriers and sending them as far as Hawaii to bomb Pearl Harbor was a huge risk the Japanese were bitterly divided over taking. There was never any real possibility the Japanese were going to make carrier aircraft raids on the west coast, though authorities in the US could not know this and worried over the possibility.

Most sizable US towns got air raid sirens in the early 1950s, after the Cold War was going strong, the Russians had nuclear weapons and long-range bombers to deliver them. I live in a fairly sizable city, which had about 60,000 people at the time. Five air raid sirens were enough that they could be heard all over town. They used to test them every Tuesday at noon. Its a spooky sound. They quit the weekly tests in the early 70s, but left the sirens in place. Several years later, early one Saturday someone hit the wrong button and turned on the air raid sirens. They used to say that there might be twenty minutes from the time the sirens went off until the missiles arrived. I heard the siren, figured I couldn't get anywhere far enough away to make any difference, and decided to stay in bed and die right there.

Answer 2

that is an extremely dumb question. Sirens never existed

Answer 3

Yes, they were called cluntzduhizers