The Auxiliary Territorial Service was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until
An ATS memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum
Two members of an ATS searchlight unit
ATS recruitment poster, with AA gun in background
ATS women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942
Anti-aircraft warfare
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Anti-aircraft warfare or air defence is the counter to aerial warfare and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action". It encompasses surface-based, s
Auxiliary Territorial Service
…One application of this specialist camera was in gunnery practice, where a pair of Cinetheodolites a known distance apart filmed the shell bursts from anti-aircraft artillery against target drones towed by an aircraft. By comparing the filmed location of the shells' detonation and the target, accurate calculations of their…
Short- and long-range AA systems used by the Dutch Joint Ground-based Air Defence Command
An Auxiliary Territorial Service spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post, in front of QF 3.7-inch AA gun (December 1942).
Ballonabwehrkanone by Krupp
Ballonabwehrkanone by Krupp