WW2 M8 Scott Footage. Pt 1.

[@nor0845]

What a great tank. Excellent footage and thank you for posting. I believe the turret was also fitted to other vehicles, such as the Buffalo amphibious vehicle and also boats.

[@PanzerInsight]

Indeed the LVT had these turrets as well.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Wow, unreal. 50 years of following WWII tanks and I never heard of this?! Kind of a motorized mortar, nice and agile for steep terrain or dense forest. Cute trailer setup too. Great footage I feel like I have now been inside of one!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

@@skysunknownheroes Nope. I used to collect and build scale models.

[@PanzerInsight]

@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 Tamiya made a really well-known model kit of this vehicle, interesting you never seen it before.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

@@PanzerInsight Not in 1968 lol.

[@PanzerInsight]

Fair enough LOL

[@josephkool8411]

@@PanzerInsight i'm in the middle of building it

[@PanzerInsight]

The 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 was a self-propelled howitzer vehicle that was developed on the chassis of the M5 Stuart tank and was equiped with a M116 howitzer in an M7 mount. The M8 was used to give infantry close support against enemy fortified positions. It proofed to be really effective in hilly terrain, because of it's high elevation of the howitzer it could hit enemy positions that were set up on high positions. The M8 was produced from 1942 until 1944 and approximately 1,778 were made and it would stay in service until 1960.

[@cody481]

Thank you.

[@paoloviti6156]

As usual a great footage! The 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 was generally assigned to the Assault Gun Troops of Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadrons in order to give them close support against enemy fortified positions with it's high elevation (40 degrees) of the howitzer was useful for hitting enemies emplaced on the sides of hills that was a very useful in Italy due to the narrow roads and high hills and therefore was popular among the crews because of it's reliability and good off road capability. My late father saw them in action going down to Pisa near his town but it was rather pointless because the Germans was already retreating. Personally I like very much the M8 with it's 75mm howitzer with it's relatively small size it could go almost everywhere! Good job again 👍👍

[@PanzerInsight]

Indeed a great little vehicle, thank you again for awesome comment. 👍 👍 👍

[@paoloviti6156]

@@PanzerInsight out of curiosity my father saw the enormous convoy of M8 (that he never saw in action) and M4 (that he saw one hit by a 75mm Pak) was racing to Pisa trough his town followed by interminable numbers of trucks and troops coming from Siena. He said that it took about a full day and a half to cross the town. He and everyone was shocked to this massive display of vehicles but to their astonishment to US troops was already dancing with the pretty girls Boogie-woogie and my father already joined the party, lol...

[@russell3380]

I was looking for my Dad, he and 4 of his friends from home went through the war each commanding one of these. He talked about it very often and loved the gun. When they were in the battle of the bulge they were offered a tank with a longer barrel and none of them wanted one.

[@joeshmoe9978]

Very useful video for model builders. 👍

[@PanzerInsight]

Glad you found it to be useful.

[@PanzerInsight]

0:10 American and Free French Forces land on Normandy Beaches. 3:00 Free French Forces in France. 7:00 Free French forces drive into outskirts of Paris and return fire onto German troops. 7:46 Montelimar American M8 manoeuvre around abandoned German vehicles. 10:32 A M8 in the town of Kolmar. note the Star painted over in black, these stars formed a target so they were either painted over in any color, or in black.

[@drinksnapple8997]

The Free French unit operating the M8 was the IV/64e Régiment d'Artillerie .

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

8:01 great shot of an M8 Scott and an M8 Greyhound side by side. Clever turning a light tank into an American StuG and a truck into an armored car. Great example of the principle of "good enough."

[@whiskeytangosierra6]

One of my favorite adaptations of WWII. Could function as direct or indirect fire support and was highly mobile. I was lucky enough to get to drive an M5 once, easy and fun to drive.

[@PanzerInsight]

Because they were easy and a great ride, the British called them Honey.

[@REALDEALMMA91]

Amazing footage !

[@dexterdog62]

That’s ONE thing the Americans had an abundance of. ARTILLERY.

[@giljeep]

superbe images du M8 en action!! avec de nombreuses vues de la 2° DB française du général Leclerc!!! merci

[@joseibanez227]

Fun factor: it was used by the French forces too in the French-Indochina war 1946-54.

[@valentinonoah8302]

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[@raulpeyton8370]

@Valentino Noah Definitely, I have been using instaflixxer for months myself =)

[@patrickwentz8413]

Nice little mobile artillery piece

[@xLeaDFusioNx]

Just got this baby in War Thunder

[@billd.iniowa2263]

Question: Was the shroud around the barrel there to protect the driver and bow gunner? Thats all I can conclude. I like this little guy. I had always thought it was a recon vehicle with some bite. But know I see it was attached to infantry for close assault duty. I also learned it was an open-top turret! Also, I never knew about the crews assembling the shells on the spot. Is that particular to this one vehicle? Because its a howitzer? Thanx so much for putting this on for us. Much appreciated.

[@PanzerInsight]

The shroud was to protect the barrel from dirt, and the shell unpacking and assembling the shells seems to be a Allied thing.

[@billd.iniowa2263]

@@PanzerInsight Ok, thanx. Not sure I get the dirt thing tho. I always figured it kept the shock wave of the report from spreading out and hitting anyone to the front of it.

[@fitt4393]

As far as I know, those m8 shooting at 9:40 are in hurten forest

[@akrmki3389]

Metalslug or Advance Wars anyone? Excellent footage

[@Onthew4y]

The baby hellcat

[@richardtallent8175]

I wish someone would do a updated model kit of one of these. The old tamiya kit shows its age. Afv club, are you listening? Great video. Thank you.

[@PanzerInsight]

You think they would because they made the new Stuart kit.

[@richardtallent8175]

@@PanzerInsight "new" stuart kit from Afv club? News to me. There seems to be interest in stuarts at this time in the modeling community. Thank you.

[@PanzerInsight]

I mean the new Tamiya Stuart kit.

[@josephkool8411]

@@PanzerInsight I got that one too. I'm building it next

[@seegurke93]

8:28 can anyone explain why the guy took one pack of explosives/propellant out? I dont get it

[@ivanschaffer4301]

to allow for different trajectories of HE rounds. mortar crews do this all the time, more propellant = further range

[@superg3962]

Amazing footage- was there a reason for so much high quality-quanity of film on this particular machine?

[@a.t6066]

Hello, do you know why m8a1 did not see as much production as m8?

[@PanzerInsight]

M8A1 was a prototype it never saw any production.

[@a.t6066]

@@PanzerInsight err I mean why was it not? M3 75mm is perform similar in most respects to m2 75mm howitzer but more versatility against emplacement and armor for better ap shell? And large scale production is already set because of m4 sherman. Do you know why m3 is not chosen as its gun originally or to upgrade over m2

[@a.t6066]

@@PanzerInsight also thank you for quick response!

[@PanzerInsight]

As far as I know it didn't work as the wanted and they had better projects going.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Yeah. Probably the best use for those hulls. Initially - you could actually kill things with that 37 but ... over all - I'd say the 75 was better. .

[@yustianpratama]

Cute tank👍

[@ahorsewithnoname643]

When did the name 'Scott' become attached to the M8? I have an interest in armour for the past 50 years and have never heard of the name M8 Scott just M8 HMC.

[@PanzerInsight]

The Ordnance department named it General Scott, after American general Winfield Scott. But like other names this one probably did not stick that well after the war.

[@ericbouchard7547]

Don't think I didn't catch those M10/25-pounder reload sounds from Company of Heroes, you.

[@PanzerInsight]

I have heard other people say this but the sound comes from audio libraries that also used it for the movie Warhorse, so maybe the same sounds were used for the game?

[@Mark3nd]

I know this is TOTALLY unamerican, but I'll say it. THE TANK, THE MYTH, LEE LEEGEEND!!!! SCOTT STERLINGTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNKK

[@rudithedog7534]

Nice....some very rare footage of French soldiers advancing during WW2, rumor has it that the Americans removed the reverse gear on all vehicles supplied to the Free French Army.....maybe you could shed some light on this 😁

[@jean-christophemoreau3018]

👍

[@Dew-review]

They are a very cute weapon of destruction

[@hyneksmid3293]

Had same role at the end war as SU-76?

[@mikazuki230]

ノルマンディー上陸作戦から4ヵ月後くらいのアメリカ陸軍自走砲師団のM8SCOTT

[@countercpu5447]

♣️👍🏼❤️

[@Robin6512]

Leuk. Kende de m8 maar nooit echt actie filmpjes van gezien.

[@PanzerInsight]

Mooi dat je het een interessante video vond.

[@Robin6512]

@@PanzerInsight en door het algoritme van YT natuurlijk meteen nog een paar.

[@yuzsue9354]

主役シャーマンの後をついて、地味な掃討作戦に従事してるんやろけど、射程距離の短い榴弾砲での攻撃は、近付かねばならず、怖かったやろな❗　砲撃を受けたらひとたまりも無い‼️

[@user.Simeon_Maltsev]

So pretty ☺️like a country girl😘

[@mummythesimpleone4791]

Panzer Luch Please

[@PanzerInsight]

Sadly there is no Luchs footage out there.

[@mummythesimpleone4791]

i'm so sad ;-;

[@PanzerInsight]

Maybe one day some rare footage will pop up, you will never know.

[@mummythesimpleone4791]

it will really nice to see Luchs running in it time

[@watarut]

地味に活躍しているんですね。しかし、カッコ悪い。