82nd (Essex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
82nd (Essex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1938 until 1955. During World War II it served in the Norwegian Campaign, defended Gibraltar and the D-Day invasion ports, and took part in Operation Diver against the V-1 flying bombs.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
Mobile 3.7-inch HAA gun deployed at White Rock Battery, November 1941.
The Gibraltar Defence Force training on a 3.7-inch gun.
Searchlights over Gibraltar during an air raid practice on 20 November 1942.
37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed just before the outbreak of the Second World War. It was engaged in defending the Thames Estuary during the war, and continued to form part of Anti-Aircraft Command in the postwar era.
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V-1 falling over London, 1944.
V-1 slung under the wing of a Heinkel He 111 bomber.
3.7-inch HAA battery in action near London 29 August 1944