2 AA Division Mixed Signal Unit, Royal Corps of Signals) When the AA Divisions were disbanded in 1942, 32 AA Bde came under the command of 5 AA Group, based in Nottingham, and remained with it until the end of its wartime service. Late war At the end of 1942, 120th LAA Rgt left for mobile training, and in the early part of 1943 41st (5NSR) S/L Rgt moved to the Humber defences and 58th (Middlesex) S/L Rgt left for 41 AA Bde. Although 43rd (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment) S/L Rgt joined, by March 1943 32 AA Bde had been reduced to one battery of 136th HAA Rgt (the others being distributed to other brigades) and the six S/L batteries of 43 and 65 S/L Rgts. All these units had left by August 1943, after which the brigade was entirely composed of Mixed (M) units, including some armed with Z Battery rocket projectiles that were partly manned by members of the Home Guard. Order of Battle 1943–44 From August 1943 the brigade had the following composition: 127th HAA Rgt – from 2 AA Group Autumn 1943; to 40 AA Bde November 1943 396, 411, 422, 433 HAA Btys 139th (M) HAA Rgt – to 63 AA Bde February 1944 483, 484, 485, 518 (M) HAA Btys 161st (M) HAA Rgt – from 63 AA Bde August 1943 447, 478, 558 (M) HAA Btys 593 (M) HAA Bty – left by April 1944 172nd (M) HAA Rgt – to 63 AA Bde August 1943; returned February 1944; to 65 AA Bde May 1944 517, 570, 573 (M) HAA Btys 582 (M) HAA Bty – joined by February, left by March 1944 668 (M) HAA Btys – left by March 1944 81st LAA Rgt – from 8 AA Group March, to 2 AA Group April 1944 199, 261, 307 LAA Btys 15th (M) 'Z' AA Rgt 120, 180, 181, 219 (M) 'Z' Btys 16th (M) 'Z' AA Rgt – joined from 39 AA Bde April 1943 126, 195, 227 (M) 'Z' Btys 'Z' AA Rgts were redesignated AA Area Mixed Rgts in April 1944 Order of Battle 1944–45 The composition of 32 AA Bde remained stable during the summer of 1944. Then in October there was a further reorganisation: 161st (M) HAA Rgt 447, 478, 558 (M) HAA Btys 182nd (M) HAA Rgt 588, 592, 594 (M) HAA Btys 6th AA