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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 ...
Crab: A modified Sherman tank equipped with a mine flail, a rotating cylinder of weighted chains that exploded mines in the path of the tank. DD tank (from "Duplex Drive"): An amphibious version of the Sherman created by fitting M4A1 and M4A4 with a large watertight canvas housing.
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.
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The Sherman Crab was a mine flail tank designed to clear a safe path through a mine-field by deliberately detonating mines in front of the vehicle; the design was first used during the North African Campaign in 1942.
A disabled Sherman Crab flail tank of the Westminster Dragoons on Sword Beach, 7 June 1944. It now consisted of three Armoured units - the 22nd Dragoons, 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry, and the Westminster Dragoons - that would remain the backbone of the brigade.
Sherman Crab flail tanks of the Westminster Dragoons carrying infantry of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the advance east of Beringe, 22 November 1944 For example, during Operation Constellation to capture Overloon and Venray , the Crabs of A and C Sqns deployed with the AVREs 617 Assault Sqn, RE , to support 3rd ...
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