Author: [Cotterell, Anthony],
Title: ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.
Description: HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., printed by Whitefriars Press, London and Tonbridge, stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, a little rubbed at extrems., light diagonal crease lower wrapper, faint creasing to cnrs. edges tanned, good plus

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight


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