page_title: 40th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
section_title: Order of Battle Summer 1944
hierarchical_section_title: 40th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom) / Operation Diver / Order of Battle Summer 1944
caption_attribution_description: English: V1 Flying Bomb A Bofors gun battery fully manned, situated on the South Coast.
context_page_description: The 40th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Territorial Army formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Its initial role was to defend Royal Air Force airfields in East Anglia. Later it commanded part of the searchlight belt protecting The Midlands. In 1944 the brigade was moved south to protect the embarkation ports for Operation Overlord and to defend against V-1 flying bombs in Operation Diver. It was briefly reformed in the postwar TA.
context_section_description: During this period the brigade was constituted as follows:
  122nd HAA Rgt – joined by July, left  August, rejoined September 1944
  397, 400, 401 HAA Btys
  126th HAA Rgt – rejoined by July 1944
  423, 425, 426, 431 HAA Btys
  127th HAA Rgt – left August 1944
  396, 411, 422, 433 HAA Btys
  132nd (Mixed) HAA Rgt – joined by July, left August 1944
  435, 450, 457, 469 (M) HAA Btys
  134th (Mixed) HAA Rgt – joined August, left September 1944
  459, 460, 461, 583 (M) HAA Btys
  136th HAA Rgt – joined by July, left August 1944
  182, 409, 432, 468 HAA Btys
  140th HAA Rgt – left by July 1944
  418, 420, 429, 430 HAA Btys
  189th (Mixed) HAA Rgt – joined August, left September 1944
  575, 577 (M) HAA Btys
  19th LAA Rgt – joined August 1944
  221, 263, 294 LAA Btys
  88th LAA Rgt – joined August 1944
  178, 289, 293 LAA Btys
  134th LAA Rgt  – left by July 1944
  192, 275, 287, 475 LAA Btys
caption: Bofors LAA guns on anti-Diver duty on the South Coast, August 1944.
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