{"id":89586,"date":"2024-09-19T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89586"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T01:20:32","slug":"d-day-tanks-operation-overlords-strangest-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/19\/d-day-tanks-operation-overlords-strangest-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day Tanks: Operation Overlord&#8217;s Strangest Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2QI0ieR-zXM?si=6jJiDfpu5K_8sNhn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jun 7, 2024 <\/p>\n<p>An opposed beach landing is the most difficult and dangerous military operation it is possible to undertake. Anticipating massive casualties in the Normandy Landings, the British Army devised a series of highly specialized tanks to solve some of the problems \u2013 Hobart&#8217;s Funnies.<\/p>\n<p>Named after General Sir Percy Hobart, commander of their parent unit, 79th Armoured Division, the Funnies included a mine clearing tank \u2013 the Sherman Crab, a flamethrower \u2013 the Churchill Crocodile and the AVRE \u2013 Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers which could lay bridges and trackways, blow up fortifications and much else besides.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Chris Copson looks at surviving examples of the Funnies and assesses their effectiveness on D Day and after.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n01:24 | Operation Overlord<br \/>\n03:02 | Lessons from the Dieppe Raid<br \/>\n05:31 | The Sherman DD<br \/>\n07:21 | Exercise Smash<br \/>\n14:38 | Sherman Crab<br \/>\n17:38 | The AVRE<br \/>\n19:47 | Churchill Crocodile<br \/>\n23:15 | Did the Funnies Work?<br \/>\n28:49 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum #d-day #operationoverlord<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Jun 7, 2024 An opposed beach landing is the most difficult and dangerous military operation it is possible to undertake. Anticipating massive casualties in the Normandy Landings, the British Army devised a series of highly specialized tanks to solve some of the problems \u2013 Hobart&#8217;s Funnies. Named after General Sir Percy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1117,1118,7,5,13,663,230],"tags":[991,974,140,975,1095,174,1298,1245],"class_list":["post-89586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-d-day","tag-design","tag-dieppe","tag-fortification","tag-innovation","tag-museum","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-niW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89587,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586\/revisions\/89587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}