Bomb Leaflets

ID: 5225 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Washington State Archives.
This file appears in: Head for the Hills

Thousands of precautionary leaflets fell from the sky as a B-36 bomber simulated a Soviet air raid.

This file appears in: Head for the Hills

By Steven Fry
On a rainy spring morning in Spokane, the wailing cries of air raid sirens rang across downtown. Operation Walkout had begun, as thousands of employees and residents evacuated the downtown district on foot. They gathered at points where busses were…