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.


Greyhounds on the Square

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 M5A1 light tank and other vehicles of the 4th Armored Division, VII. Corps, pass through the wrecked streets of the town of Coutances, north-western France; 1944.
