136th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery during World War II. It protected the UK against air attack as part of Anti-Aircraft Command, including the defe
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3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
3.7-inch HAA gun on 'anti-Diver' duties, autumn 1944.
A V-1 falling to earth in London, 1944
6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defense formation of the British Army formed during the Second World War. It served in the disastrous Norwegian Campaign in 1940 and then defended East Anglia duri
136th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…defending the ports at which the shipping for the invasion of Europe (Operation Overlord) was being gathered. By now, 136th HAA Rgt formed part of a new 102 AA Bde in 2 AA Group, but in May it transferred to 44 AA Bde, which had been brought down from Manchester take over the AA defences on the Isle of Wight. Here…
Royal Artillery Bofors gun and crew at Harstad, 14 May 1940.
Damage at Harstad after a German air raid.
Bofors guns at a South Coast anti-Diver battery, August 1944.
3.7-inch guns at a South Coast anti-Diver battery, July 1944.