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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.
Defence Munitions (DM) Kineton occupies the site officially known as MOD Kineton, and is a Ministry of Defence property located close to the village of Kineton, Warwickshire, England. History [ edit ]
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]
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
The Taunton Stop Line was one of more than fifty similar defensive lines that were constructed around England in WWII, all designed to compartmentalise the country to contain any breakthrough until reinforcements could arrive. Stop Lines used a combination of geography and construction to make continuous defences.
Otterburn is the UK's largest firing range, and is in frequent use. The ranges are used by AS-90 artillery and M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems ; Otterburn is the only place in the UK where the MLRS can be fired, requiring an 11 mile long by 2 mile wide firing range.
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).