M8 HMC Scott during live fire test in training area
M8 “3-9” named Laxative Somewhere in Normandy 1944
M8 howitzers in action Biak 1944
Commander of the 6th Infantry Division Gen Franklin C. Sibert on M8, New Guinea 1944
M8 of 77th Infantry Division in action Leyte December 1944
M8 Scott Saipan 1944
M8 8381 – General Motors Proving Ground April 1943
M8 supporting troops from 30th Infantry Division, 117th IR Vise Belgium, 11 September 1944
M8 Laxative and M4 of the 2nd Armored Division Barenton France 1944
113th Cavalry Recon Troopers brew chow next to M8 Holland 9 September 1944
M8 GMC was a self-propelled howitzer vehicle of the United States developed during the Second World War.
It was developed on the chassis of the then new Light Tank M5 (General Stuart VI). The test vehicle had the standard M5 turret removed, and replaced with an open topped turret, this vehicle was designated the T47. Armament consisted of a new open topped turret armed with a 75 mm M2 howitzer, later an 75 mm M3 howitzer, which were reworks of the M1A1 pack howitzer. It carried 46 rounds of 75 mm ammunition, types of ammunition carried were; Smoke M89, and H.E. (High Explosive) M48. It featured no coaxial or hull mounted Browning M1919A4 .30-06 machine guns as featured on standard Light Tank M5’s. The only other armament was Browning M2HB .50cal machine gun for local area, and anti-aircraft defence, 400 rounds of .50 cal were stowed onboard for the M2HB. The T47 was ordered into production as the 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 in April 1942. Production ran from September 1942, to January 1944. A total of 1,778 vehicles were produced.