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.
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.
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 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.
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 ?
37mm cannon wouldnt do crap to a king tiger. It definitely wasnt but as far as 37mm hitting anything other then a tank that round in a.p would cause total destruction to light armor or apv. And all other troop armorwr cars or trucks
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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.
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.
Thank you, very interesting presentation.
lot of info. thanks. great video.
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.
That's cool, didn't realize it was in development
@@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.
No… I don’t know. But thank you for telling me.
His vehicle is new to me. It does not appear in any Hollywood WWII movies that I can think of.
It appears in band of brothers. It also appears for like 10 seconda in Fury
Nice 👍 Car
First line in the video is me saying "shane did it". Don't know what he did, but yes, he did it.
i am sure he did.
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 ?
Take a shot every time I say "you know?"
37mm cannon wouldnt do crap to a king tiger. It definitely wasnt but as far as 37mm hitting anything other then a tank that round in a.p would cause total destruction to light armor or apv. And all other troop armorwr cars or trucks
Would it be possible to fit T114's recoilless gun turret to a greyhound?
Woo hoo
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"promosm" 😢