In viewing the Cincinnati Civil Defense Corps, an evaluation of the importance of the air raid wardens and the air defense system will be conducted. The thesis will look at problems faced in creating a system from scratch as well as to look at the reason an air defense system was created in a city in which an air attack was impossible. Cincinnati, itself, represents an average size mid-western city, and in that respect, the lessons learned from this research could theoretically be applied to any equal size city in that respective area. Two interviews were conducted in order to get a first-hand account of what the air raids were like during the war. The majority of research was done at Cincinnati Historical Society Library, where most of the original documentation lies.