File:Air to Ground Gunnery Range Marker Shelter MG 9618 -1.jpg

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English: Air to Ground gunnery range Marker Shelter

Credit to Peter E Hamlin for the following information:

This is a rare example of an Air to Ground gunnery range Marker Shelter. Originally there would have been timber shuttering around three sides spaced and packed with sand and at least 18 inches of filled sandbags on the roof.

Conduits running through the wall allowed rope halyards to raise and lower a danger flag and special signals to indicate to aircraft when it was safe to open fire or to cease fire. Used before the use of R/T (voice radio communications) Range personnel would shelter in here during attacks because the structure was just below the line of fire and was proof against small calibre bullets. Spare targets were stored inside and an area to repair targets.

The actual targets were between the shelter and the sea usually between four and six in a line.

Peter E Hamlin

Credit also to Jeff Buck & Geograph
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