page_title: 34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade
section_title: Mid-War
hierarchical_section_title: 34th (South Midland) Anti-Aircraft Brigade / Mid-War
caption_attribution_description: QF 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns in Hyde Park, London in 1939.
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: Newly-formed AA units joined the brigade, the HAA units increasingly being 'mixed' ones into which women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service were integrated. At the same time, experienced units were posted away for service overseas. 6th HAA Regiment was relieved by 71st (Forth) HAA Rgt and left in September 1941 for Middle East Forces (MEF); en route it was diverted to the Far East and its batteries were captured at the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 and Java in March 1942.
  This continual turnover of units accelerated in 1942 with the preparations for Operation Torch and the need to relocate guns to counter the Baedeker Blitz and the Luftwaffe 's hit-and-run attacks against South Coast towns.
caption: Mobile 3.7-inch HAA guns in action, early in World War II.
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