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.
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3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was a Supplementary Reserve air defence formation of the British Army formed in Northern Ireland in 1938. On the outbreak of the Second World War it saw active service with t
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…towing vehicles to get the guns away. Initially they were ordered to Saint-Pol, then to Saint-Omer and finally to move south-west to Rouen to come under 3 AA Bde. However, 2nd Panzer Division was already in Abbeville blocking the way, and the battery had to fight a rearguard action with enemy ground troops to…
Mobile 3.7-inch AA guns deployed in 1939.
3.7-inch gun deployed in France March 1940.
Searchlight of 10 S/L Bty, 3rd (Ulster) S/L Rgt in France, May 1940.
Motor transport on the quay at Cherbourg during Operation Aerial, 13 June 1940.