"The first anti-aircraft battery"

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The first anti-Aircraft battery was a unit of negotiations in the British Army during World War II, consisting of Jewish volunteers from the Land of Israel, including a group organized between the school graduates from Israel. The battery was associated with the British Air Force Base in the wall (now the base of Tel-Fah).

The unit was founded on 18 October 1940 and held until December 1944. The unit made use of machine guns against radar aircraft taken from the Italian army in North Africa, and the Beaufores gun. In the summer of 1941, during the campaign in Syria and Lebanon during the Second World War, the unit participated in the defense of Haifa in part of the bombings of the Italian Air Force on Haifa. At the end of 1943, with the withdrawal of the front from the land of Israel and the victory of the Germans in the campaign on the Dorian Islands, the only place in Cyprus was placed.

In 1944, with the establishment of the only Jewish Brigade, along with the coastal artillery company, the creation of the “Jewish battalion of the field artillery.” The battalion was equipped with 25-lit guns and trained in the British Eighth Army training camp in Fiji in Italy. He then took part with other units of the Brigade in the Campaign on the Sanio River.

The only leaflet that took place in the name of the total being, for example, an annual wizard, was a library, and organized a coffer for mutual assistance.

The only leaf
From 1942 to 1943, the only leaflet was issued, the cannonstown. The Boston language was Hebrew, except for passages on behalf of or for the British command. The leaf was printed in the young guard’s pattern in its area. Owen appeared in topical affairs and the only life, literary works, humor and more.

Another reading.
A life that prevails, "The soldier nine seven," Tel Aviv: the young shift of the Land of Israel's Workers Party, will return.
Amir Arbel, "Arbel gunners on his branches," 1948.
Passover Ben-Fram, "A Letter to Guns", inside: Heart Values, Elimination, pp. 252 - 253.

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The Israeli artillery force
Land-Israeli units in the British Army during World War II