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Grant Scorpion Mine Flail
Flail A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a mine-field by deliberately detonating mines in front of the vehicle that carries it. They were first used by the British during World War II.
The mine flail consists of a horizontal, rapidly-rotating rotor mounted in front of the vehicle on two arms. Fist-sized steel balls are attached to the rotor by chains (flails). The rotor's rotation causes the flails to spin wildly and to continuously and violently strike the ground. The force of these strikes mimics a person or vehicle passing over the mines and causes them to detonate, but in a safe manner that does little damage to the flails or the vehicle. Grant Scorpion Mine Flail Company on LCT These Scorpion Mine Flails practiced their 'craft' in Libya... and departed for Sicily from Tripoli, Libya... 
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Here are Shermans with wading gear also entraining and detraining from LCT''s in practice exercises and for building up equipment in North African ports for later deployment in Sicily... 
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