Talk:Home Guard (United Kingdom)/Archive 1

As far as I can tell this section is not about the Home Guard at all. They were neither observers or gunners. Why is this section here? [[Special:Contributions/199.71.183.2|199.71.183.2]] ([[User talk:199.71.183.2|talk]]) 20:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

As far as I can tell this section is not about the Home Guard at all. They were neither observers or gunners. Why is this section here? [[Special:Contributions/199.71.183.2|199.71.183.2]] ([[User talk:199.71.183.2|talk]]) 20:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

:Ditto the coastal artillery section. Most vulnerable sections of coast had regular troops in the summer of 1940 - see [[Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke|Alanbrooke]]'s War Diaries.

:Ditto the coastal artillery section. Most vulnerable sections of coast had regular troops in the summer of 1940 - see [[Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke|Alanbrooke]]'s War Diaries.

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==Anti-aircraft defences==

I wonder how relevant the story about the paratrooper is to this article. At least it is not correct. True, the Rotterdam area was attacked by paratroopers, and this showed the potential of this new weapon, like the events in Eben Amael (fortress captured by paratroopers) did. But the paratroopers did not land in a football stadium in Rotterdam to capture the Royal family in The Hague. Nor was it prevented because the plans were known. Hence the family only escaped on the 13th while the attackes started on the 10th of may. They landed in the fields and landed aircraft on airfields. The attacks on the airfields were at costs of heavy casualties. This was because a Dutch DC-2 crew was on the Oslo airfield when Norway was attacked. Paratroopers were used there (it is being said that Hitler wanted to test them in a smaller battle before using then in the attack on western Europe) and the KLM crew reported what they saw when they arrived back home. Because of this, the AAA crews were prepared and were able to shoot a lot of Ju-52's while landing or after landing. aerial photo's clearly show the results, as do statistics of losses. So, in my opinion that part should be removed (irrelevant) or maybe be a short mention of paratroopers being used in the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/80.112.253.98|80.112.253.98]] ([[User talk:80.112.253.98#top|talk]]) 14:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

::I have removed the a-a defences and coastal sections as they do not appear to be relevant at all. [[User:MilborneOne|MilborneOne]] ([[User talk:MilborneOne|talk]]) 18:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

:The home guard did operate anti-aircraft artillery. — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/124.197.15.138|124.197.15.138]] ([[User talk:124.197.15.138|talk]]) 02:31, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

::Not untill later in the war.[[User:Slatersteven|Slatersteven]] ([[User talk:Slatersteven|talk]]) 12:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC)