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The Churchill Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) was a heavily modified Churchill III or IV armed with a "Petard", a 230mm [8] spigot mortar that fired a 40 pound (18 kg) "Flying dustbin" demolition bomb. The 'Bobbin' Carpet Layer was a Churchill AVRE fitted out with a roll of matting for laying on a beach or other soft surface.
The flame projector on a Crocodile tank, photographed during trials in April 1944 Churchill Crocodile at the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Collection, Fort Moore, in 2023. The thrower had a range of up to 120 yards (110 m), [18] some sources quote 150 yards (140 m). [19] [20] but generally the range was around 80 yards (73 m) [21]
Churchill Crocodile at Southsea. Churchill AVRE – The collection at The Tank Museum, Bovington includes a working Mark III Churchill AVRE. Another example is located in a hamlet of Graye-sur-Mer in Normandy; it is unusual in having been buried on D-Day in the shell-hole it fell into, and then being recovered later as a memorial.
AVRE on the Normandy beach during the D-Day landings. Churchill III and IV AVRE vehicles were successfully used to breach defences in the D-Day landings, and continued in use through the rest of the allied advance to Nazi Germany.
Bradley immediately understood their usefulness and on 16 February 1944 he requested five companies (about 100) of the Sherman DD (swimming) tanks, twenty-five Sherman flails and one hundred Churchill Crocodile flamethrowers from the British War Office for use on both Omaha and Utah beaches.
More than 14,000 Canadians stormed the 8 kilometres (5 mi) stretch of a Lower Normandy Beach between Courseulles-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months, and throughout the summer of 1944 the Canadian military used the town’s port to unload upwards of 1,000 tons of material a day, for the first two weeks ...
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M4 Sherman Crocodile – M4 tank modified with the flamethrower and fuel trailer from a Churchill Crocodile. Four built and issued to 739th Tank Battalion, which was attached to the 29th Division for Operation Grenade in February 1945, where they cleared the Old Citadel in the town of Jülich .