5 (commander, gunner, driver, radio operator/loader, co-driver/flamethrower gunner)
Armour
152mm hull and turret front, 95mm hull sides and turret sides and rears, 51mm hull rear
Main armament
Ordnance QF 75 mm
Secondary armament
Flame thrower, 1 x coax Besa machine gun
Engine
See Churchill tank See Churchill tank
Fuel capacity
See Churchill tank
The Churchill Crocodile was a British flame-throwing tank of late Second World War. It was a variant of the Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill Mark VII, although the Churchill Mark IV was initially chosen to be the base vehicle.
The Crocodile was introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart, informally known as "Hobart's Funnies". It was produced from October 1943, in time for the Normandy invasion.
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The ChurchillCrocodile was a British flame-throwing tank of late Second World War. It was a variant of the Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill Mark...
storage, or in some cases in a special trailer behind the tank (ChurchillCrocodile). In comparison to man-portable flamethrowers, flame tanks carried...
into the "Crocodile" flame-throwing variant without major modification. Churchill Mk VIII 1,600 produced, together with Mark VII. A Churchill VII with...
"Never Smile at a Crocodile" is a comic song with music by Frank Churchill and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. The music, without the lyrics, was first heard...
the Churchill infantry tank. Work was initially slow because priority was given to the Wasp and there is a suggestion that early work on the Crocodile was...
204. Blaxland, p. 247 Jackson, p. 225. Jackson, p. 228. Fletcher, ChurchillCrocodile p. 35 approximately one flamethrower vehicle every 70 yd (64 m) along...
mounted the fuel externally, such as the armoured trailer used on the ChurchillCrocodile. Flame tanks have been superseded by thermobaric weapons such as...
Sherman. This towed an armoured fuel trailer, like those used by the ChurchillCrocodile. The trailer, in the water, was supported by an inflatable flotation...
storage, or in some cases in a special trailer behind the tank (ChurchillCrocodile). Flame tanks have been superseded by thermobaric weapons such as...
but would "definitely blind" the assailant. ChurchillCrocodile 1943 United Kingdom The ChurchillCrocodile was a British flame-throwing tank developed...
in to attack the heavily fortified Fort Montbarey. Flamethrowing ChurchillCrocodile tanks along with US infantry took three days to overcome the fort...
requested types of Funnies, the Sherman flamethrower version of the ChurchillCrocodile is known to have been difficult to produce, and the Centipede never...
Pacific theater. M4 Sherman Crocodile – M4 tank modified with the flamethrower and fuel trailer from a ChurchillCrocodile. Four built and issued to 739th...
British World War II–type "lifebuoy" flamethrower in 1944 A Churchill tank fitted with a Crocodile flamethrower in action. An Australian soldier fires a flamethrower...
modified M4 Sherman and Churchill tanks. Examples include the Sherman Crab tank (equipped with a mine flail), the ChurchillCrocodile (a flame-throwing tank)...
DD (swimming) tanks, twenty-five Sherman flails and one hundred ChurchillCrocodile flamethrowers from the British War Office for use on both Omaha and...
abandon their positions. AVRE vehicles were frequently teamed with ChurchillCrocodile flamethrowers for bunker clearance. The AVRE would crack the defences...
defenders under cover until too late to be effective and accompanied by ChurchillCrocodile and Wasp flame-throwing vehicles to act as final "persuaders". Kangaroo...
better. From this test installation was developed the Crocodile equipment for the ChurchillCrocodile flame-thrower used in the North West Europe campaign...
The troops moved in with Churchill tanks in support, in addition C Squadron of 79th Armoured Division with ChurchillCrocodile flame thrower tanks were...
Crab mine clearers, and AVRE (Engineer) tanks along with a regiment of Crocodile flamethrowing tanks. Prior to the entry of the United States into the...
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