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Anti-Aircraft Defence Against Low-Flying Enemy Aircraft: A Handbook for Light Machine Gunners, Including Particulars of Notable Successes in Recent Fi

Anti-Aircraft Defence Against Low-Flying Enemy Aircraft: A Handbook for Light Machine Gunners, Including Particulars of Notable Successes in Recent Fi

Pridham, C. H. B.

Paperback

Weaponry & VehiclesWorld War II

ISBN10: 1783312572
ISBN13: 9781783312573
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: Sep 16 2016
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A slim official handbook of 1941, written for the light machine gunner faced with the low-level attack. The Luftwaffe's ground-strafing runs had been a feature of the fighting in France and Norway the year before, and every unit, ship and airfield was expected to put up fire against them with whatever it had. This booklet sets out how. Beyond the drills it gathers particulars of notable successes in recent fighting, by land and sea, so that gunners could see the thing had been done and how. Photographs and line drawings illustrate the aircraft to expect, the angles of approach and the aiming allowances needed against a fast, low target. Nineteen pages, and useful now for what it shows of British air defence doctrine at unit level in the second year of the war, and of the confidence the army was trying to instil in men armed with nothing heavier than a Bren. Naval & Military Press reprint, 2016, from the 1941 original. Softback, 19 pages, photographs and line drawings.

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