The guns used in war to shoot down planes are called antiaircraft guns.
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It's generally an artillery gun designed to fire shells straight forward into the sky to shoot down aircraft. The shells generally exploded next to enemy planes. German AA guns shot down over 37,000 Allied bombers. Anti aircraft shells have flack or pieces of metal material when they explode this material flys out in many directions something similar to a fragmentation grenade
We do not have any exact number. Considering that guns have been used in wars for nearly 1000 years now, the number of guns used in war is well up in the millions- but we could only guess.
Radar, fighter planes (Spitfire and Hurricane), long range (for a fighter) from France to London, barrage balloons, antiaircraft guns, civilians looking for planes with binoculars and calling in if they were spotted, searchlights that were used at night to look for planes.
because If the didn't have technology they wouldn't of been able to spy on the Nazi soldiers
Well, air power was not hugely important in WWI. However, they were mainly used to spy on each other. Airplanes would fly over enemy territory to take pictures. There were also fighters to protect their spy planes, and shoot down enemy spy planes. Also, there were bombers at the time, but they weren't nearly as heavily used.