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• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941

  (art) Made by: Macleod, William Douglas

  image: numerous manned Z-rocket launchers are positioned over a flat landscape, all firing upward. Trails from the projectiles and the beams of the launchers searchlights illuminate the night sky.

• An AA Battery : River Medway

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: a view looking down on several anti-aircraft guns, including two Bofors guns, in gun emplacements with a few soldiers moving around in between the maze of walls in the battery. The battery is positioned on the coast with the sea and a small dock...

• An AA Battery

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: Two figures stand in the centre of a road in the foreground. Behind them, just off the roadside, is a gun battery. An anti-aircraft gun points up to the sky, surrounded by a circular stone wall and sandbags. The rooftops of a large town lie...

• The Anti-robot Gun Belt on the Romney Marshes

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: A flat landscape with anti-aircraft guns positioned over the fields. In the corner is a small group of military tents.

• Anti-robot Defences on a South Coast Dairy Farm

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: A view across a field containing three manned field guns firing into the air, surrounded by grazing cows.

• The Gun Belt : Anti-robot defences

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: Several anti-aircraft guns in a field on the coast, aimed out to sea.

• Anti-aircraft Defences

  (art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W (ARA) 1940

  image: View of an anti-aircraft battery set in countryside with searchlight beams crossing the sky and attendant soldiers

• Battle of London: Royal Marine AA Gunners bring down a Flying-bomb

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: Four marines take cover in a ditch as a flying-bomb, trailing smoke, plummets to earth

• An AA Battery in Holland: January 1945

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1945

  image: a British anti-aircraft battery in a flat, snow-covered Dutch landscape. Two guns are on the right, with their crews busying themselves amongst them. Further back in the middle of the composition is another AA gun.