Picture No | 10218148 |
Date | 1944 |
Description | Petard Mortar on a Churchill AVRE Tank; Second World War |
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The Petard mortar on a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE tank equipped with a Petard mortar, was designed to attack bunkers and concrete strongholds. The charge fired by the mortar was popularly known as a 'Flying Dustbin'.
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Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 23 September 1944, page 353 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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