The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) Churchill 'Crocodile' tank, fires a burst of flame on the range at Puckapunyal. The Australian army purchased 51 Churchill tanks from Britain in late 1945 but the vehicles arrived too late to see action in the Pacific theatre. A number of these vehicles were configured as flame throwing tanks. A further order for 100 vehicles was later cancelled. Churchill tanks formed the post war mainstay of the RAAC until they were finally phased out in 1956, being replaced by Centurion Mk V/1 tanks.
An aerial view showing entrenched armoured vehicles from the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), which have been deployed for an exercise at the school of armour at Puckapunyal, Victoria. Some of
A Churchill MkVII Crocodile testing a flame thrower at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, Puckapunyal. A series of test shots were made at varying elevations and three different fuel mixtures. Th
A Churchill MkVII Crocodile testing a flame thrower at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, Puckapunyal. A series of test shots were made at varying elevations and three different fuel mixtures. Th
A Churchill MkVII Crocodile testing a flame thrower at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, Puckapunyal. A series of test shots were made at varying elevations and three different fuel mixtures. Th
A Churchill MkVII Crocodile testing a flame thrower at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School, Puckapunyal. A series of test shots were made at varying elevations and three different fuel mixtures. Th
Puckapunyal, Seymour, Vic. 1946. A Churchill Mk VIII (Crocodile) flamethrower tank test firing on the tank range. Apart from the flame equipment, fired from the hull, the tank was fitted with a 95mm
