12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of the British Army during the Second World War. It specialised in providing anti-aircraft (AA) protection for forward airfields, for the Advanced Air Striking Force in the Battle of France and the Desert Air Force in the North African Campaign. It landed at Salerno in 1943 and fought through the Italian Campaign, its guns often engaging ground targets as well as aircraft. It was reformed postwar and continued for a few years in Anti-Aircraft Command.
3.7-inch HAA gun attached to the AASF for airfield defence near Reims, 23 March 1940.
3-inch AA guns on cruciform travelling carriages.
A 3.7-inch HAA gun in the Western Desert, 1941.
Bofors LAA gun in Libya, 6 June 1942.
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a West Midlands-based volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) raised in 1937. During World War II, it served in the Battle of France, The Blitz, Egypt, Sicily and Italy. Postwar, its successor regiments continued to serve until 1967, and a battery descended from the regiment forms part of today's Army Reserve
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
3.7-inch HAA gun in action in the field artillery role in Italy.
