{"id":74370,"date":"2024-05-04T05:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=74370"},"modified":"2024-05-04T05:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:14:49","slug":"know-your-ww2-history-the-m8-greyhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/know-your-ww2-history-the-m8-greyhound\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW2 History: The M8 Greyhound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The M8 Greyhound<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Armored cars tend to be overlooked by\u00a0World War II<\/a>\u00a0history buffs.<\/h2>\n

Nimble fighter planes, deadly bombers, hulking tanks and stealthy submarines are “sexier” than a car that can’t fight like a tank, can’t race a plane, and can’t use terrain to its advantage like infantry. Nevertheless, armored cars were a vital part of World War II armies, serving in a scout role where they were faster than infantry and stealthier than tanks. This article is about the\u00a0M8 light armored car<\/strong>, also called\u00a0Greyhound<\/strong>\u00a0in British service, the definitive armored car of the U.S. Army.<\/h2>\n

The M8 did not actually start out as a reconnaissance vehicle. Before World War II, America’s primary anti-tank weapon was the 37 mm gun. Being a towed gun, it was slow to move around and set up, and the emerging anti-armor doctrine\u00a0(<\/em><\/strong>Read our earlier article<\/em><\/strong><\/a>)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0required a self-propelled vehicle that could mount it.<\/h2>\n

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The M8 Greyhound   Armored cars tend to be overlooked by\u00a0World War II\u00a0history buffs. Nimble fighter planes, deadly bombers, hulking tanks and stealthy submarines are “sexier” than a car that can’t fight like a tank, can’t race a plane, and can’t use terrain to its advantage like infantry. Nevertheless, armored cars were a vital part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5064,478,479,6096,6135,1286,6052,4827,6458,1899,1901],"tags":[7666,763,9125,17090,17371,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74372,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370\/revisions\/74372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}