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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]
The Churchill had good (though slow) cross-country performance, heavy armour, and a roomy interior. The Sherman's mechanical reliability was valued. Among the many specialist vehicles and their attachments were: The Churchill Crocodile was a Churchill tank modified by the fitting of a flame-thrower in place of the hull machine gun. An armoured ...
Churchill AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle. This particular example is a post-WW2 AVRE on the MK VII chassis. Proposed by a Canadian engineer as a result of experience from the Dieppe Raid, [2] the Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) was a Churchill Mark III or IV equipped with the "Mortar, Recoiling Spigot, Mark II" (or Petard), a spigot mortar [a] that throws the 230 mm (9.1 in ...
Churchill Crocodile flame tank. 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 ...
Churchill's Secret Weapons – The Story of Hobart's Funnies. Robert Hale. ISBN 0-7090-6237-0. Farthing, John. Where Pluto Crossed the Path. ISBN 978-9781873294. – walks on the Isle of Wight near PLUTO pipes. Fletcher, David (2007). Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower. New Vanguard. Illustrated by Peter Sarson. Osprey. ISBN 978-1846030833.
Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (14 June 1885 – 19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
A Churchill Crocodile tank firing FRAS Fuel Research Aluminium Stearate (FRAS), is mixture of chemical substances , used as an incendiary agent by the United Kingdom during the Second World War . It is hygroscopic fuel developed by the Fuel Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research . [ 1 ]
Comet Crocodile One surviving photo shows a Comet Crocodile. [5] This mounted a flamethrower and towed a fuel trailer similar to the Churchill Crocodile. Little is known about it. Comet 20pdr Finland is said to have experimentally modified a single Comet with an adapted turret to carry the 20pdr gun. A single blurry photo has been found.