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The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, [3] [4] see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range ...
The 789th AAA Battalion was composed of four batteries (A, B, C, and D) which consisted of roughly 200-250 individuals. Each battery contained ten 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft artillery guns. The 789th AAA Battalion also contained a headquarters, or HQ, battery which managed the administrative responsibilities of the battalion.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. 11th Buffs left 219th Bde on 3 November 1941 and transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining in the light anti-aircraft (LAA) role, equipped with Bofors 40 mm guns: on 15 November it became 89th LAA Regiment with 308–310 LAA Batteries.
The 110th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (110th LAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II.Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942.It served with 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in Normandy (Operation Overlord) and through the campaign in North West Europe until VE ...
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, [1] (Bofors 40 mm L/70, Bofors 40 mm/70, Bofors 40/70 and the like), is a multi-purpose autocannon developed by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (today BAE Systems Bofors) during the second half of the 1940s as a modern replacement for their extremely successful World War II-era Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun-design.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. After initial training the regiment joined Anti-Aircraft Command, but left in February 1942 before it had been allocated to a brigade. [6] At first it formed part of the War Office Reserve, but by April it came under XI Corps District in East Anglia.
The 184th AAA Gun Battalion was an American antiaircraft artillery battalion of World War II. The 184th was activated in 1943 as part of the reorganization of the 61st Coast Artillery Regiment . After training in England, it took part in the air defense of London in 1944.
Ideally, each support group would consist of two motorised infantry battalions, as well as artillery, anti-tank, and light anti-aircraft guns. [9] At full strength, the support group would have sixteen 25-pounder field gun-howitzers, twenty-four 2-pounder anti-tank guns, and twenty-four Bofors 40 mm gun anti-aircraft guns. [94]