page_title: 34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade
section_title: Later war
hierarchical_section_title: 34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade / Later war
caption_attribution_description: IWM caption&#160;: Royal Artillerymen at a 'Z' Battery load 4-inch anti-aircraft rockets into a mobile launcher. Comment&#160;: These are actually 3-inch rockets.
context_page_description: The 34th (South Midland) 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. It defended the West Midlands of England during The Blitz.
context_section_description: A reorganisation of AA Command in October 1942 saw the AA divisions disbanded and replaced by a number of AA Groups more closely aligned with the groups of RAF Fighter Command. 11 AA Division merged into 4 AA Group covering the West Midlands and North West England and cooperating with 9 Group RAF.
  By March 1944 AA Command was being forced to release manpower to 21st Army Group for the planned Allied invasion of continental Europe (Operation Overlord), and most regiments lost a battery.
caption: Loading a mobile multiple Z Battery launcher,
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