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  2. Churchill Crocodile - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Tank Design preferred the Churchill, which was the infantry tank successor to the Valentine, as a basis for further work. [1] The General Staff decided a flamethrower based on the Churchill using the Petroleum Warfare Department's design was required. The main armament of the tank was to be retained.

  3. Churchill tank - Wikipedia

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    The Churchill Crocodile was a flamethrower tank which replaced the hull machine gun with a flamethrower and towed an armoured fuel trailer. Churchills were converted to "Kangaroo" armoured personnel carriers by removing the turret from Churchills.

  4. List of specialist Churchill tank variants - Wikipedia

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    A Churchill Mark II or Mark III with a flamethrower. Developed for the amphibious raid on Dieppe in 1942, the Oke flamethrowing tank was named after its designer, Major J.M. Oke. The design was basically a Churchill tank fitted with the Ronson flamethrower equipment. A tank containing the flame fuel was fitted at the rear, with a pipe from it ...

  5. Flame tank - Wikipedia

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    Churchill Oke: Churchill Mk II with fixed "Ronson" flamethrower. Three were part of the 1942 Raid on Dieppe but were put out of action before the equipment was used. Churchill Crocodile: Churchill Mk VII equipped with a kit including an armored fuel trailer that used compressed nitrogen for pressure. The flamethrower replaced the hull machine ...

  6. Flamethrower - Wikipedia

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    A Churchill tank fitted with a Crocodile flamethrower in action. An Australian soldier fires a flamethrower at a Japanese bunker The British World War II army flamethrowers, "Ack Packs", had a doughnut-shaped fuel tank with a small spherical pressurizer gas tank in the middle.

  7. Hobart's Funnies - Wikipedia

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    The Churchill Crocodile was a Churchill tank modified by the fitting of a flame-thrower in place of the hull machine gun. An armoured trailer, towed behind the tank, carried 400 Imperial gallons (1,800 litres) of fuel. The flamethrower had a range of over 120 yards (110 metres), far greater than man-portable units.

  8. A flamethrower and comments about book burning ignite a ... - AOL

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    A longshot candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal. “From a dramatic sense, if ...

  9. Petroleum Warfare Department - Wikipedia

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    The so-called Home Guard flamethrower was not a flamethrower in the conventional sense, but a small, semimobile flame trap. From about September 1940, 300 Home Guard units received a kit of parts provided by the PWD - a 50 to 65 imp gal (230 to 300 L) barrel, 100 ft (30 m) of hose, a hand pump, some connective plumbing, and a set of do-it ...

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