US M8 Greyhound Light Armored Cars in WWII

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Жыл бұрын

Chris (tanks-encyclopedia.com/author...) and I talk about several WWII era US Armored Cars and their use during the war.

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@joegoetz8884 2 ай бұрын

My Dad crewed an M8 as a member of the 107th cavalry. His unit fought in the battle of Falaise Gap, in the hedgerow country. He said the 37mm canister round was effective taking out hidden German positions in the hedgerows.

@chugg535 Ай бұрын

Thank you, very interesting presentation.

@jasonrusso151 6 ай бұрын

The early M8 is 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion the late one is from the 2nd Armored Div., 82 Cavalry Recon Squadron. Each Armored Div had it's own Cav RCN Sqdn. Every Inf. Div. had a Troop. Not to mention that footage @4:08 is of the 4th Cavalry Group/Regiment. if you ever see Group it is referring to a Regiment in unit size. Squadron=Battalion, Troop=Company. Cav Regts did Corps & Army level Recon, flank security & Task Force Raids. My personal favorite. Like in Bridge at Remagen.

@bugs5644 Жыл бұрын

lot of info. thanks. great video.

@KingIjazMalik 15 күн бұрын

Nice 👍 Car

@erintarrell8218 13 күн бұрын

No… I don’t know. But thank you for telling me.

@alfredmasullo 2 ай бұрын

His vehicle is new to me. It does not appear in any Hollywood WWII movies that I can think of.

@PanzerGuide 11 күн бұрын

It appears in band of brothers. It also appears for like 10 seconda in Fury

@andrewo6747 Жыл бұрын

First line in the video is me saying "shane did it". Don't know what he did, but yes, he did it.

@bugs5644 Жыл бұрын

i am sure he did.

@captiannemo1587 Жыл бұрын

While it is manual transverse. There was originally plans to put power transverse in all armored cars along with the Westinghouse stabilization system. But both got dropped.

@jsplicer9 Жыл бұрын

That's cool, didn't realize it was in development

@captiannemo1587 Жыл бұрын

@@jsplicer9 yah its buried in some policy notes in British Army Staff Situation Reports. And by Policy I mean they mention that they are dropping the idea for armored cars. So go figure. Kinda a shame, as it would make the ACs a lot more useful. But, considering how horrible the generating sets were on both tanks and armored cars its probably for the best.

@jsplicer9 Жыл бұрын

Take a shot every time I say "you know?"

@Teraskas 22 күн бұрын

I read somewhere that there were 2 types of engines for these: A 4 cyilinder and a 6 cylinder. Was there any reasoning behind this, or was one regularly chosen over the other ? What were some of the benefits of these different engines ?