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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.
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"Pom-Pom" 40mm shells carried by sailors on the British destroyer HMS Ashanti (F51) in Nov 1941.
"HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named for an ethnic group, in this case the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast in West Africa. She served in the Second World War and was broken up in 1949. She was the first of two Royal Navy ships to bear the name Ashanti."
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HMS Ashanti (F51) - Wikipedia
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Effects left by a 22,000 pound 'Grand Slam' bomb dropped from an Avro Lancaster, which pierced the reinforced concrete roof of the German submarine pens at Farge, north of Bremen, Germany.
