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Members of the 207th Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, man a 4.5-inch anti-aircraft gun at in Kent; Jan 1941.
British guns/ artillery/ self-prop arty
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Besides not wanting to be in the plane that was aimed at I wouldn't want to be anywhere near
when all that shrapnel started to succumb to gravity.
when all that shrapnel started to succumb to gravity.
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WWI Lewis Aircraft Gun modified for Home Guard with 97 round drum magazine.
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Sailors fit the tampions to the 14 inch guns of HMS Howe.
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Loading a single launcher on a static Z Battery (anti-aircraft weapon system) on Merseyside, July 1942.
I wondered why the "Z" designation and did a search but couldn't find anything.
"A Z Battery was a short range anti-aircraft weapon system, launching 3 in (76 mm) diameter rockets from ground-based single and multiple launchers, for the air defense of Great Britain in the Second World War. The rocket motors were later adapted with a new warhead for air-to-ground use as the RP-3."
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Found more pics though.
This is photograph H 21141 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
War Office official photographer, Taylor (Lt)
"A Z Battery was a short range anti-aircraft weapon system, launching 3 in (76 mm) diameter rockets from ground-based single and multiple launchers, for the air defense of Great Britain in the Second World War. The rocket motors were later adapted with a new warhead for air-to-ground use as the RP-3."
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Found more pics though.
This is photograph H 21141 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
War Office official photographer, Taylor (Lt)
Cool pic of town crossroads in France or Belgium in 1944.
A British 17 pounder AT gun being towed across, civilians with bicycles and what looks like US medics using a captured German kuebelwagen.
A British 17 pounder AT gun being towed across, civilians with bicycles and what looks like US medics using a captured German kuebelwagen.
Original colour photo of British Bofors AA gunners watching fighters taking off at an RAF airfield in Tunisia, 1943.
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BL 9.2-inch Mk IX coastal defense gun at Gibraltar, Jan 1942.
