An M8 Greyhound armored car of the 30th Infantry Division passes through the small village of Leinsweiler, Germany. At left, a disabled German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G (or StuG) - meaning "assault gun" - was pushed off the road into a ditch; 21 November, 1944.


Greyhound passes a Stug in the ditch

U.S. troops advancing in Normandy, France, pause in a battle-scarred area to scan the road with field glasses before moving forward in their M-8 Greyhound 6x6 Light Armored Car, circa June-July 1944.

What is ahead?

M8 Greyhound armored car fires on German troops during the advance southward as the US forces poured around the crumpled German flank at Avranches, France, August 1944. Halftrack and other vehicles following.