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Sherman Crab Flail Tank

DAVID FLETCHER was born

CONTENTS

in 1942. He has written a

number of books and articles

on military subjects and is

currently the historian at the

INTRODUCTION

Tank Museum, Bovington, UK.

He has spent over 40 years

• Born in the desert

studying the development

of British armoured vehicles

ALAMEIN DEBUT

during the two World Wars.

DEVELOPMENTS IN BRITAIN

TONY BRYAN is a freelance

• Enter the Baron

illustrator of many years'

• The British Scorpion

experience who lives and

works in Dorset. He initially

PROTOTYPES PROLIFERATE

qualified in Engineering

and worked for a number of

THE SCORPIONS SPREAD

years in Military Research and

Development, and has a keen

interest in military hardware -

THE CRABS MOVE IN

armour, small arms, aircraft

• The Crab in action

and ships. Tony has produced

many illustrations for

partworks, magazines

THE AMERICAN ANGLE

and books, including a

number of titles in the

POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS

New Vanguard series.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

COLOUR PLATE COMMENTARY

INDEX

New Vanguard • 139

Sherman Crab Flail Tank

David Fletcher · Illustrated by Tony Bryan

First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Osprey Publishing,

Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford 0X2 OPH, UK

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Author's note

The author wishes to thank John Taylor-Firth, Ian Hammerton, and

Richard C. Harley.

All images contained in this book are kindly provided by The Tank Museum,

Bovington.

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Index by Alan Thatcher

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THE SHERMAN CRAB FLAIL TANK

INTRODUCTION

a 'tactician's paradise', an open expanse in which the gifted

commander can exercise his skills to outmanoeuvre his opponent.

Even so, this is only true in a limited sense. There are all manner of natural

features in the desert that inhibit what a commander can do, and the

sensible soldier improves upon these with man-made ones, among which

the minefield is the most effective. Well sited, the minefield can turn vast

swathes of desert into no-go areas for mobile forces and channel them

elsewhere at the dictates of the defender. For the Allied armies operating

in the theatre during World War II, some system or machine had to be

created to counter the threat of mines.

A Crab going all-out. This

photograph is presumably a

training picture since there are

no markings on the tank and no

photographer with any sense

would stand just here if there

was any risk of a mine going off.

Born in the desert

When Rommel took Tobruk in June 1942, the British and Allied forces

began a massive retreat back over the Egyptian frontier, hoping to reach

M ost readers will know that the Western Desert is meant to be

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