Members of the Volunteer Defence Corps training with a 3.7 Inch anti-aircraft gun emplaced on Kensington Golf Links in Sydney during May 1943
The following is a list of anti-aircraft defences of Australia during World War II.[Note 1]
New South Wales[]
- Sydney AA Group
- 103rd HAA Regiment
- 108th, 110th and 111th LAA Regiments
- 1st, 7th, 9th, 15th, 20th and 25th AA Batteries
- Newcastle AA Group
- 3rd, 7th and 18th AA Batteries
- 22nd LAA Battery
- Kembla AA Group
- 8th AA Battery
- 221st LAA Battery[1]
Victoria[]
- Melbourne AA Group
- 112th LAA Regiment
- 10th, 11th and 30th AA Batteries[1]
Queensland[]
- South Queensland AA Group
- 2/2nd HAA Regiment
- 113th and 114th LAA Regiments
- 6th, 38th AA Batteries
- North Queensland AA Group
- 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th AA Batteries
- 223rd, 224th and 226th LAA Batteries[1]
South Australia[]
- 12th and 26th AA Batteries[1]
Western Australia[]
- Fremantle AA Group
- 2/3rd, 109th and 116th LAA Regiments
- 4th, 5th and 29th AA Batteries[1]
Tasmania[]
- 13th AA Battery[1]
Northern Territory[]
- Darwin AA Group
- 2/1st LAA Regiment
- 2nd, 14th and 22nd AA Batteries
- 225th and 233rd LAA Batteries[1]
New Guinea[]
- Port Moresby AA Group
- 23rd and 32nd AA Batteries
- 2/4th HAA Battery
- 2/7th, 234th and 156th LAA Batteries
- Milne Bay AA Group
- 33rd, 23rd (det) AA Batteries[1]
See also[]
- Structure of the Australian Army during World War II
- Coastal defences of Australia during World War II
Notes[]
- Footnotes
- ↑ Anti-aircraft organisation as it existed in late-1942.
- Citations
References[]
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- Palazzo, Albert (2001). The Australian Army. A History of its Organisation 1901–2001. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-551507-2.
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