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• An AA Site (Rockets)

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: a view through a corrugated iron arch, looking out on an anti-aircraft battery at night. In the centre of the site two men stand on the roof of a hut next to an aerial, keeping watch. They are surrounded by anti aircraft guns pointing up at the...

• 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...

• A Searchlight Battery

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1942

  image: a searchlight on a small paved area of a promenade, next to a lighthouse. The area is surrounded by barbed wire and also contains a small, manned anti-aircraft gun emplacement. There are several men in uniform in the battery, including one asleep...

• AA Guns as Coastal Defence

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: This appears to be two drawings, one above the other, showing lines of soldiers manning field guns on the edge of costal cliffs.

• 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 the South Coast : Light AA guns

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: A cliff-top with a row of manned anti-aircraft guns, aimed out to sea. One of the guns is firing into the sky. A large cloud of smoke is billowing up from the sea. On cliff, behind the guns are several 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.