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  2. Mine flail - Wikipedia

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    The Crab weighed 32 tons [7] - around two tons more than a normal Sherman. Sherman Crab under test. The flail has been lowered to work in a dip in the ground. Great attention was paid to marking the cleared path through the mine field. Crabs carried a pair of bins filled with powdered chalk that slowly trickled out to mark the edges of the safe ...

  3. Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers - Wikipedia

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    A preserved, World War II, Sherman Crab – an M4 Sherman tank fitted with a flail. During World War II the Sherman Crab was the primary (and most effective) mine clearance vehicle for the 79th Armoured Division, but AVREs carried a range of mine clearance devices to supplement them.

  4. 22nd Dragoons - Wikipedia

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    Sherman Crabs of 30th Armoured Brigade, 1944. All three regiments of the 30th Armoured Brigade were re-equipped with Sherman Crab flail tanks - M4 Sherman tanks modified by attaching a large jib, covered in chains, to the front of the vehicle. The idea being that the tanks would clear a path through a minefield by slowly driving along flogging ...

  5. 79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The Canal Defence Light ('CDL') was a powerful carbon-arc searchlight mounted on a tank which could be deployed to dazzle and confuse enemy troops. The Churchill Crocodile was a Churchill VII tank in which the hull machine gun was replaced with a flamethrower; fuel was carried behind the tank in an armoured wheeled trailer.

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  7. M4 Sherman variants - Wikipedia

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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 .

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