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Pillboxesuk.co.uk. The Real Dad's Army. Channel 4 documentary. Attack on a Pillbox – news item featuring a British training exercise (Newsreel). British Pathé. 10 February 1941; National. Defence of Britain database. Pillbox study group. Pillboxes UK Details of many specify sites throughout Britain. Regional
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
Opened in 1974, the Tower Museum, Bassingbourn is located in the original pre-war air traffic control (ATC) tower (watch office) of RAF Bassingbourn. The museum is focused on the history of the airfield during the Second World War and the men and women of the RAF and USAAF who trained and worked there during that war.
Dunnet Head - geograph.org.uk - 14728. Coastal Defence U-Boat (CDU). A new experimental system, Radar, for submarine detection and tracking. First introduced in the Second World War. There were six experimental stations, two located on Fair Isle. [73] Ward Hill, Radar Station (CDU), Fair Isle, Fair Isle [65]
RNAD Dean Hill: photograph taken inside Magazine No. 16 during the Second World War. A Royal Naval Armament Depot (RNAD) is an armament depot (or a group of depots) dedicated to supplying the Royal Navy (as well as, at various times, the Royal Air Force, the British Army, and foreign and Commonwealth forces).
Scallywag bunkers: geophysical investigations of WW2 Auxiliary Unit Operational Bases (OBs) in the UK; Uncovered: the WW2 'Scallywag Bunkers' that were Britain's last-ditch line of defence; World War 2 secret exposed: Churchill's 'last-ditch' strategy unearthed in secret bunkers; CART Auxiliary Unit Research
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The remaining defence regiments and independent batteries in the UK were disbanded or converted into field artillery on 12 January 1942: [5] [7] 2nd Defence Rgt became 171st Field Rgt; 3rd Defence Rgt became 172nd Field Rgt; 5th Defence Rgt disbanded, personnel to 172nd Field Rgt; 7th Defence Rgt with personnel of 923 (Ind) Def Bty became 173rd ...