M8 Greyhound
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5th Army M8 Nina Chiquita Armored Car and Jeeps in Gaeta Italy May 20 1944
79th Infantry Division M8 Greyhound Destroyed By Mine La Haye Du Puits France
9th Army Troops in M8 passing statue of König Friedrich I in Moers Germany 1945
Captured German M8 Greyhound Armored Car
Ford Motor Company's brand new M8 Greyhound
General Patton's M20. 1st Army Combat Engineers Celebrate Liberation with French Citizens of Verdun 1944
German M8 Greyhound cars
GI's dismount M8 Armored car and jeeps Mechelau Luxembourg 3rd Army 1945
Greyhounds of Company C 82nd Recon Battalion, 2nd Armored Division pass through the road junction at St. Sever Calvados on 3 August 1944. Operation Cobra
Greyhounds of Company C, 82nd Recon Battalion, 2nd Armored Division pass through the road junction at St. Sever Calvados
M20 "Rusty" Armored Car of the 6th Cavalry Group With Modified .50 Cal Ring Mount 3rd Army February 17 1945
M20 armored utility car
M8 Armored Car in field trials
M8 Armored Car Jump View
M8 Armored Vehicles Await Invasion at Ordnance Depot in England 1944
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M8 Greyhound "Buffalo Bill" of the 14th Cavalry Group captured by Germans, St Vith, Belgium
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M8 Greyhound Armored Car in Action Belgium Sept 1944
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M8 Greyhound Armored Cars in field trials
M8 Greyhound Armored Cars of the 2nd Cav Group Enter Brehal Normandy August 2 1944
M8 Greyhound at Gaeta Italy 1944
M8 Greyhound named Colbert
M8 Greyhound of 113th Cav Recon Squadron Spearheads 1st Army Drive into Holland September 1944
M8 Greyhound with crew
M8 Greyhounds of the 4th and 10th Armored Division in Bastogne
M8 light armored car Side View
M8 of the 10th Armored Spearhead reaches Quint Germany 9 March 1945
M8 of the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Armored Division at St. Lo, 1944
MB GPW Jeep And M8 Armored Car Leave Castle For Invasion Training 1944
Patrols of the U.S. First and Third armies are shown as they met near the town of Grinvet, west of Houffalize, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge
Troops of 84th Division shake hands with an M8 armored car crew from 11th Armored Division after they linked up along the Ourthe River on 16th January 1945
US soldiers in M8 of the 106th Cavalry Regiment in small French village
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US Soldiers of Recon Unit in M8 Scout Car In Mountebourg France
US Troops in M8 stopped by hungry women in Periers 1944
US VII Corps Major General J. Lawton Collins in his M8 in Eupen Belgium 1944
The M8 Greyhound Armored Car and M20 Armored Utility Car were a 6x6 armored cars produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II. Specifications:
| M8 | M20 | |
| crew | 4 | 6 |
| lenght | 5000 mm | 5000 mm |
| width | 2540 mm | 2540 mm |
| height | 2310 mm | 2240 mm |
| combat weight | 7900 kg | 7100 kg |
| tire | 9.00-20 | 9.00-20 |
| armor / angle: | hull: 6,4 - 19,1 mm
turret: 6,4 - 19,1 mm mantlet: 25,4 mm |
hull: 6,4 - 19,1 mm |
| main armament | 37 mm gun M6, 16-80 rounds. | - |
| secondary armament | 12,7 mm M2HB (1500 rounds) and 7,62 mm M1919A4 (400 rounds) | 12,7 mm M2HB (1000 rounds) |
| engine: | Herkules JXD, 110 hp at 3000 rpm, 6 cylinder, liquid-cooled, gasoline 5243 cm3. | Herkules JXD, 110 hp at 3000 rpm, 6 cylinder, liquid-cooled, gasoline 5243 cm3. |
| transmission | 8 forward and 2 reverse | 8 forward and 2 reverse |
| fuel | 200 l | 200 l |
| max speed | 90 km/h | 90 km/h |
| range | 560 km | 560 km |
| grade | 60% | 60% |
| turning radius | ||
| trench crossing | 800 mm | 800 mm |
| vertical obstacle | 300 mm | 300 mm |
| fording | 600 mm | 600 mm |
| ground clearance | 280 mm | 280 mm |
| manufacturer | Ford | Ford |
| production | 8523 cars | 3791 cars |