Antiaircraft defenses

In addition, there will be required special provision for the antiaircraft defense of seaports, rail junctions, airfields and other crucial positions within the country. Reserve elements... 

In this its first forward area mission the i/id Company quite naturally met with problems not found in rear area screening. For one thing, the unit worked in two shifts because of the necessity of a constant daytime screen as well as the possibility of operations at night. (Installations at the rear, it will be remembered, did not include smoke among their daytime antiaircraft defenses.) The problem of security was greater because of the danger of enemy patrols. Communications maintenance increased appreciably and the need for continuous fog oil resupply in an area both difficult and dangerous to reach involved problems unknown at the port screen at Naples. 

Luft,/. air atmosphere, -ablass, m. escape of air air outlet, -abscheider, m. air separator. deaerator, -abschluss, m. exclusion of air air trap, -abschreckung,/. (Metal.) air quenching, -abwehr, /. air defense, antiaircraft. -abzug. m. air exhaust, air exhaiister. 

The standard Antiaircraft Gun (Koshaho) was a 75-mm Gun, but there was also an 88-mm AA Gun which was one of their most effective weapons and a 105-mm A A Gun. The Japanese also designed a 150-mm AA Gun for the defense of the home islands, but this was used only in the last few months of WWII... 

Defense System, Antiaircraft. A grouping of electronic and/or mechanical equipment for detecting the presence of aircraft within an area defended by AA (antiaircraft) guns Ref Glossary of Ord (1959), 90... 

Antiaircraft (AA) refers to the weapons, ammunition and personnel used for defense against enemy aircraft... 

He studied strike photographs. He reviewed intelligence reports. The Japanese just didn t seem to have those 20- and 40-millimeter [antiaircraft] guns, he remembers realizing. That s the type of defense which must be used against bombers coming in to attack at a low or medium altitude. Up at twenty-fi ve or thirty thousand feet they have to shoot at you with 80- or... 

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