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Generator carrier for anti-aircraft searchlight, usually towed Sd.Kfz. 247 Ausf. A Krupp built ten Ausf. A models on the chassis of its six-wheel Krupp Protze truck in 1937. Sometimes anti-tank (37 mm Pak 36) and anti-air (2 cm Flak) guns were mounted directly on the truck bed .
The Carmarthenshire Fortress Royal Engineers (CFRE) was a coast defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army formed after World War I.In World War II, it provided an anti-aircraft searchlight unit that served during the early part of The Blitz, and then during the Siege of Malta.
The 5th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (5 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed as a searchlight brigade to protect the British Expeditionary Force 's bases just before the Battle of France .
474th Searchlight Battery, Royal Artillery was a unit of the British Army during World War II.Originally raised as an anti-aircraft (AA) battery, in which role it served during the Battle of Britain and Blitz, it also provided artificial illumination, or 'Monty's Moonlight', for night operations by 21st Army Group during the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–45.
Until 1938 all Anti-Aircraft Searchlight (AAS/L) duties in the British Army were carried out by the Royal Engineers (RE). In October 1936 the RE reformed 30th and 34th Fortress Companies (which had been disbanded in the UK in 1933 and 1927 respectively) to man AAS/Ls at Singapore, where defences were being built for the naval base.
The Royal Engineers (RE) had developed an extensive anti-aircraft (AA) searchlight (S/L) organisation during World War I, [1] [2] [3] but this was quickly reduced after the Armistice. The last remnants of Nos 3 and 17 AA Companies moved to Blackdown Camp at the end of 1920 to form the nucleus of 1st AA Battalion, RE , as part of the newly ...
The SCR-268 (for Signal Corps Radio no. 268) was the United States Army's first radar system. Introduced in 1940, it was developed to provide accurate aiming information for antiaircraft artillery and was also used for gun laying systems and directing searchlights against aircraft.
When the TA was reconstituted on 1 January 1947, the regiment was reformed in the heavy anti-aircraft artillery role as 608th (Kent) (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA ('Mixed' indicating that members of the Women's Royal Army Corps were integrated into the unit). The regiment was in 67 AA Bde.