Air protection is a collective term for measures to protect against attacks from the air, especially against bomb attacks. A distinction should be both public and private measures, the latter often due to legal requirements, active (military aircraft) and passive measures (civil air defense), a local civilian (eg As caretakers) of about a local air [...]
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Air Raid Precautions
June 5th, 2013 
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Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Other Units of UK, United Kingdom Army 
Tags: air raid warden, air surveillance, hermann goering 
No Comments »Home Guard (United Kingdom)
June 4th, 2013 admin The British Home Guard (initially: Local Defence Volunteers) was a Home Guard, which was active between 1940 and 1944 in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. History The beginnings In 1939, Winston Churchill suggested before in a letter to John Anderson, the commander of the Air Raid Precautions, an association for the protection [...]
Salerno Mutiny
June 3rd, 2013 admin For mutiny of Salerno refers to the revolt of about 700 soldiers of the X Corps of the British Army, mostly belonging to the 51st (Highland) Division and the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division on 16 September 1944 on the beach of Salerno, in ‘field of the Italian campaign of World War II. The soldiers, whose [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Other Units of UK, United Kingdom Army Tags: british army, mutiny, world war ii, x corps No Comments »Black Watch
June 1st, 2013 admin The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS often abbreviated) is a battalion of infantry of the Scottish Royal Regiment of Scotland. History Or the Black Watch Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) originated infantry companies raised in 1725 to maintain peace in the Scottish Highlands. A few years later, they were 6 [...]
21st Army Group
May 31st, 2013 admin The 21st Army Group was a major unit (army group) the time of the Second World War under the British high command, especially from the British and Canadian associations existed. They fought on the Western Front. The High Command was established in July 1943 in England for the planned Operation Overlord , formed the invasion [...]
Royal Army Medical Corps
May 30th, 2013 admin The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is the medical service of the British Army. The RAMC, founded in 1898, is responsible for the medical care of British soldiers in the barracks, during exercises and deployments. The medical care consists of regular primary care, hospital care and preventive occupational health care. In addition to regular care [...]
British Commonwealth Occupation Force
May 29th, 2013 admin The occupation forces of the British Commonwealth (The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF)) was the name given to the joint military of Australia, British, Indian and New Zealand deployed on the territory of Japan occupied forces of February 21, 1946 until at the end of the occupancy in 1952. At its peak, the BCOF included [...]
Sudan Defence Force
May 29th, 2013 admin The Sudan Defence Force (SDF) (Sudanese Defence Force) was a military unit of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was established in 1925. As the name indicates, his job was to keep the border of Sudan under the British administration. During the Second World War it was used in the campaign of Italian East Africa (1940-1942) in particular [...]
Special Boat Service
May 29th, 2013 admin The Special Boat Service, Royal Marines (SBS) is the maritime special unit of the armed forces of the United Kingdom. As the Special Air Service, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), and the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) is the SBS part of the community of the special forces (Special Forces community) Great Britain, the United [...]
Royal Corps of Signals
May 29th, 2013 admin The Royal Corps of Signals (also known as Royal Signals, abbreviated R SIGNALS known) is one of the combat support units of the British Army. The signal units are used early in the fight to establish battlefield communications and information systems. The Royal Signals units maintain the global telecommunications infrastructure of the British Army. The [...]
