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
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.
2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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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.
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…Écury and Athis, 311 AA Bty's eight guns were distributed to Matougues, Saint-Mard-lès-Rouffy and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, while 210 AA Bty was detached to 2 AA Bde covering airfields north of the River Somme (see below). The first GL Mk. I gunlaying radar sets had arrived amidst much secrecy. The AASF airfields…
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.