Tank Chats #57 Churchill AVRE | The Funnies | The Tank Museum
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Published 2018-09-20
The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers). The Churchill was the basis for a number of Funnies. David Fletcher looks at the Fascine, Bobbin, Small Box Girder bridge, Bullshorn plough, Conger, the Churchill ARK and Bridgelayer.
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All Comments (21)
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More please. Put a microphone on him, give him a coffee, let him wander and ramble, and record everything. Please.
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"But when it hits...my goodness me." You know it must be catastrophic with that level of British understatement from Mr. Fletcher.
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The most heavily armoured things at the Tank Museum: - Churchill - King Tiger - Jagdtiger - David's moustache
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14:40 die of boredom? never, i could watch these all day
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I watch gun Jesus on forgotten weapons now im watching tank Einstein.... wow
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My father was a gunner for this type of tank on D-Day. Their task was to take out an identified pill box, but when they arrived at the pill box it had been destroyed by naval gunnery. Moving further into the village, they were stopped by some infantry and were asked if they could help take out a house which several machine guns were holding up their advance. As they still had their Petard they duly obliged. He told me that the house was reduced to matchsticks.
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I'd happilly listen to Mr Fletch waffle on about anything nvm tanks.
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An explosion big enough to vaporize a pair of trucks, wreck 4 Churchill AVREs, kill 50 soldiers AND an unlucky family in a farmhouse that was a bit too close to the blast radius. And David describes it as “...A tremendous business and very unpleasant.” Over here in the states, we’d usually use those words to describe nothing worse than a bad case of constipation. Dear Lord, I just positively adore British understatement.
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14:35 you obviously don't know your audience too well do you Mr Fletcher? if you made a six hour video i would watch it. Even the short video David did about the german RAL system had my full attention. we need more content from The Tank Museum, i can't get enough!.
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"or well its similar! I can't pronounce it!" David Fletcher gold.
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Now there's something you don't see AVRE day...
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Can you imagine being under enemy fire, dropping a fascine into a huge anti-tank ditch and, with the fascine now out of your line of sight, driving your seatbelt-less and helmet-less steel death box over it on blind faith that the fascine didn't fall in a weird position and that you are lined up with it properly.
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literally has a Super PIAT as its gun.
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No. I didn't die of boredom. Most interesting 18 minutes. Have the Churchill bridge layer as a model, matchbox. Built it 35 years ago.
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"Does avre things" The Churchill series is my favourite simply because they were so versatile never mind just the avre with it flying dustbin. The mk VII is for me what a tank is.
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Why have I never seen this vehicle? Is it a recent acquisition?
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AVRE: when you absolutely want to make sure whoever's behind that wall fits into a soup can
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I would gladly listen to David "going on" about funnies for days.
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God I could listen to this man all day. Not a single video with him is boring or dull. So much cool info. Please keep these videos coming! <3
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My Friends dad was a loader for the dustbin on one of these tanks, he told me the story of when he joined up having a choice of Regiments, the recruitment guy persuaded him to join the engineers, said " you will be fixing roads and bridges after all the fighting is over" Ended up on D Day in one of the first people ashore in his tank, the first spigot jammed and he had to get out of the tank to free it, in his words it felt like every German in Europe was firing at him personally.
