2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of the British Army during the Second World War, seeing active service in the Battle of France and the North African and Italian campaigns.
3-inch AA guns of 2 AA Bty, 1st AA Rgt with the BEF in France, 19 October 1939.
3-inch AA guns abandoned on the seafront at Dunkirk 1940.
A 3.7-inch HAA gun in the Western Desert, 27 June 1941.
A Bofors crew watches the sky after a Stuka raid during Eighth Army's advance to Tripoli, 29 January 1943.
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a West Midlands-based volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army raised in 1937. During World War II, it served in the Battle of Fr
2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
…60th (City of London) AA Rgt (TA) – 24 x 3-inch guns 210 Bty of 73rd AA Rgt (TA) – 8 x semi-mobile 3-inch guns 51st (Devon) LAA Rgt (TA) – 12 x Bofors 40 mm guns, 48 x Light machine guns (LMGs…
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.