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    DD or duplex drive tanks, nicknamed "Donald Duck tanks", were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War....
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  • as DD Dunkin' Donuts, a company Data Disc Dioničko društvo (d.d. or D.D.), a type of Joint-stock company in Bosnian and Croatian languages DD tank, an...
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    bombs Valentine DD tank with screen lowered, 1944 Valentine with AMRA Valentine Scorpion  Canada Canadian Army received 30 of 1,420 tanks built in Canada...
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    fire to get to the beach. In spite of the rough seas, DD tanks of two companies of the 741st Tank Battalion were dropped 5,000 yards (4,600 m) from shore;...
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    Duplex Drive (DD) amphibious tanks, "Crab" mine clearers, and AVRE tanks along with a regiment of Churchill Crocodile flame-thrower tanks. Montgomery considered...
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    pillboxes. The Duplex-Drive tank (DD tank), another design developed by Hobart's group, was a self-propelled amphibious tank kept afloat using a waterproof...
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    LCT to carry the DD tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion all the way to the beach, after 27 of the initial 29 DD tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion were swamped...
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    brigade each of swimming DD tanks, Crab mine clearers, and AVRE (Engineer) tanks along with a regiment of Crocodile flamethrowing tanks. Montgomery considered...
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    and water obstacles. Some heavy tanks can operate amphibiously with a fabric skirt to add buoyancy. The Sherman DD tank used in the Normandy landings had...
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    winds made conditions difficult for the landing craft, and the amphibious DD tanks were released close to shore or directly on the beach instead of further...
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  • resulting in the loss of 27 of the 32 DD tanks before they reached shore. Only two of the launched DD tanks reached the beach; another three were carried...
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  • Game) Visual Novel/Action NetEase Games 2018 Thailand Closed 3 April 2019 DD Tank (Mobile Game) Artillery MMOG.asia/Changyou.com 2018 Thailand [citation...
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    early; the LCTs carrying DD tanks were forced to break off their advance. The seas proved too rough to launch the DD tanks, so they were ordered to deploy...
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    The United States provided tens of thousands of its Medium Tank M4, also named the Sherman, to many of its Allies during the Second World War, under the...
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    Loyd amphibious tank 1944 Sherman DD (Duplex Drive) amphibious tank with float screens lowered A Polish PT-76 amphibious light tank coming out of the...
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    736th Tank Battalion, equipped with DD tanks, was attached to the 743rd, and led the assault across the Rhine on 24 March, with all 17 DD tanks reaching...
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    was sufficient to drive it forward at about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) (see also DD Tank). Each Abbot was supported by an amphibious Stalwart High Mobility Load...
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  • Nicholas Straussler (category Tank designers)
    flotation system used by Allied amphibious DD tanks during World War II. He also designed several armoured cars and tanks, including the 39M Csaba armoured car...
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    Type 3 Ka-Chi (category World War II tanks of Japan)
    and did not see combat. DD tank - World War II British tank flotation system. T-38 - World War II, Soviet amphibious light tank. Zaloga 2007, p. 17. Taki's...
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    September. In 1944, two companies of the battalion were re-equipped with DD tanks, specialised M4 Shermans designed for amphibious landings. On 15 August...
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    Royal Navy, decided to launch his DD tanks closer inshore than had been planned. Thirty-four out of forty DD tanks of 'A' and 'B' Squadrons of the 13/18th...
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    Valentine tanks were unsatisfactory, so they decided to use the design for American Sherman medium tanks. This led to the development of the DD (Duplex...
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  • operating environment of the DD tanks, then with the tanks themselves, using British DD Valentine tanks, then later their own new DD Shermans. By April, the...
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    yards (910 m) south. Eight Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs), each carrying four amphibious DD tanks of 70th Tank Battalion, were scheduled to land a few minutes...
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    Armoured Brigade. On 27 July 1941, it handed over its units to the 1st Army Tank Brigade and received new units based in Egypt. It was reformed again when...
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    Type 2 Ka-Mi (category History of the tank)
    Ka-Mi in Patriot Park, Russia. DD tank - World War II British tank flotation system T-38 - World War II, Soviet amphibious tank Taki's Imperial Japanese Army:...
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    served with the 27th Armoured Brigade. Having been equipped with Sherman DD tanks, it took part in the D-Day Landings at Sword Beach, and fought during Operation...
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    submerged tank from the 70th Tank Battalion discovered in his search. In 1984, with the aid of local residents and diving firms, he raised the tank, which...
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    allow the DD tanks to climb over. 5th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) had been held up in their advance on Mittelburg, but when B Sqn's DD tanks arrived the...
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    Duplex Drive ("Tetrarch DD"). The Duplex Drive system was invented by Nicholas Straussler, and was designed to allow a tank to 'swim' through water and...
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