Open AccessPOSTSCRIPT ON SOUTH AFRRICA'S FIRST ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS
Author(s) -
W.M. Bisset
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/10-2-710
Subject(s) - publicity , adversary , range (aeronautics) , aeronautics , history , peninsula , political science , engineering , law , archaeology , computer security , computer science , aerospace engineering
One of the most fascinating things about South Africa's military history is the often surprising nature of some of its sources. In a short article on South Africa's first anti-aircraft guns which appeared in Militaria 8/1, 1978 pages 22-23 the present writer mentioned that he was unable to explain why the fact that two 15-pounder BlC's had been converted to anti-aircraft guns had been given wide publicity or why it had been necessary to undertake their conversion when the Cape Peninsula seemed beyond the range of enemy aircraft