12th Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of the Second World War. It defended Western Scotland and Northern Ireland, including the period of
Rescue workers searching through rubble after an air raid on Belfast
The remains of HAA gunsite N9 overlooking Clydebank.
The remains of Drumcross HAA gunsite, built near Glasgow in 1941.
42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army. It was responsible for protecting extensive residential, industrial and shipping areas around Greater Glasgow and
12th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
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QF 3.7-inch AA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
ATS spotters at an HAA gun site in Scotland, January 1943.
Loading a mobile multiple 4-inch Z projector, 1941
40 mm Bofors LAA gun and crew.