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.

Attacking the German flank

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

M8 Greyhound Armored Cars of the 29th Reconnaissance Squadron, 29th Infantry Division, pause on Place Sainte-Croix in the ruined city of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France; 19 July 1944.
