228th (Edinburgh) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery was a Scottish air defense and served in the defense of Gibraltar.
During 1942 there were six bombing raids on Gibraltar, two of which were unidentified, and 18 reconnaissance overflights, all but two of them German. Four aircraft were shot down and others crash-landed in Spain. Some of the Italian raids missed their targets and dropped their bombs in Spanish territory, and Spanish AA guns sometimes opened fire as a raid passed towards them. By the end of 1942, the AA defenses of Gibraltar reached a peak of scale and efficiency, but the threat had dwindled: there were only two or three more reconnaissance overflights in the whole of 1943.
![Searchlights over Gibraltar during air raid drill conducted by Royal Artillery - 1942 [2480x1722]](https://i.redd.it/kou2wc2vh4s51.jpg)
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228th (Edinburgh) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery was a Scottish air defense and served in the defense of Gibraltar.
During 1942 there were six bombing raids on Gibraltar, two of which were unidentified, and 18 reconnaissance overflights, all but two of them German. Four aircraft were shot down and others crash-landed in Spain. Some of the Italian raids missed their targets and dropped their bombs in Spanish territory, and Spanish AA guns sometimes opened fire as a raid passed towards them. By the end of 1942, the AA defenses of Gibraltar reached a peak of scale and efficiency, but the threat had dwindled: there were only two or three more reconnaissance overflights in the whole of 1943.