The Home Defence Executive (H.D.E.) was formed on 10 May 1940 under
General Sir Edmund Ironside, Commander-in-chief
Home Forces
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, to organise the defence of Britain from invasion by the
Axis
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Mathematics
* Axis of rotation: see rotation around a fixed axis
* Axis (mathematics), a designator for a Cartesian-coordinat ...
powers
[Collier, Basil. "The defence of the United Kingdom". Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. p103.]
See also
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Home Guard (United Kingdom)
The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an armed citizen militia supporting the British Army during the Second World War. Operational from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard had 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible ...
Notes and references
1940 establishments in the United Kingdom
Civil defence organisations based in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom home front during World War II
Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II
Military units and formations established in 1940
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