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11th Armoured
Division - Rhine campaign, Germany, 1945. |
1st Royal Tank Regiment, British Army - Germany, 1945. Personal tank of the 1st RTR Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Pat Hobart.
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The very visible
insign on the turret indicates that this Comet is part of a training
unit in Great Britain. |

Artist's View
! The project was abandoned because the Churchill Crocodile was already fully satisfactory despite its slowness and the Comet was far too precious as a standard battle tank, still very rare at the end of the war. In addition, if we consider that the excellent 77 mm gun of the Comet, would finally provide to a British tank, an effective range sufficient to compete with the German tanks at a long distance, it is a bit appalling to graft a flame thrower which is a weapon of very short range for a use as an infantry support tank! |
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