Harvard Graduate Heads Plan For Boston Air Raid Shelters

Convinced of the possibility of German air raids on the United States coast, a group of architects and engineers, headed by Harold B. Willis '12 are now conducting a survey to determine the best way to provide Boston with air raid shelters.

A world war ace pilot with four citations of the Croix do Guerre, Willis served as an ambulance driver this year in France until the armistice.

"If we should become a belligerent nation," declared Willis, "it will be physically possible for an enemy to bomb out coast. Naturally the army air corps has that eventuality in mind. France was bombed. After looking at the results it was easy to see that cellars of ordinary masonry buildings are traps. One such shelter in Beauvals had 16 people in it. The building fell and all were killed."