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422 Heavy Anti Aircraft Troop

Details:

Title

422 Heavy Anti Aircraft Troop,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

32 Mile,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Anti-aircraft,

Unit

422 Heavy Anti Aircraft Troop,

Alternative unit name

427 HAA Troop,

Parent unit

5 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

Date arrived in NT

1943-02-28,

Date left the NT

1943-09-30,

History

In February 1943, this Troop took over the 4 3.7 inch Mark II static guns at gun station 431 (H2 or Livingstone) located on the western side of the North South Road, south east of the Hughes field and northeast of Livingstone Strip.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 427 HAA Troop, 5 Heavy Anti aircraft Battery, 3.7 inch, Anti-aircraft, 422 Heavy Anti Aircraft Troop,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C32309 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 012714, Second World War, 1939-1945],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847750,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/848108