T17E1

Overview of user countries and units


World War II


Mediterranean battlefield
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Great Britain
27th Lancers Regiment / 27th Lancers (5th Corps / V.Corps)
1. Králův pluk dragounů / 1st King's Dragoons (13.Zbor / XIII. Corps)
12th Lancers (10th Corps)


New Zealand
Divisional Cavalry Regiment 2nd New Zealand Division - Divisional Cavalry Regiment 2nd New Zealand Division 09/1943 -


Poland
Carpatian Lancers - Pulk ulanów karpackich (2nd Polish Corps / Polish II.Corps / 2nd Polish Corps) 09/1943-06/1944
12th Podolsky Hulan Regiment - 12th Podolski Lancers - 12. Pulk ulanów podolskich (3. divize karpatských střelců/3rd Carpatian infantry Division)
15th Poznan Lancers Regiment 15th Poznan Lancers - 15. Pulk ulanów poznańskich (5. pěší divize "Kresowa"/5th Kresowa Division/5th Kresowa Infantry Division)
7. lublinsky hulánský pluk - 7th Lublin Lancers - 7. Pulk ulanów lubelskich ()
25. hulánský pluk - 25th Wielkopolski Lancers - 25. Pulk ulanów wielkopolskich ()


Canada
Royal Canadian Dragoons Regiment - Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Canadian Corps / I. Canadian Corps) 02/1944 -


Middle East
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Great Britain


13th Lancers Regiment - 13th Lancers (31st Armoured Division (Indian) /31st Armoured Division)
3rd Hussars Regiment - 3rd Hussars (31st Armoured Division (Indian) /31st Armoured Division)


European battlefield
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Great Britain


30 Royal Navy Assault Unit /30 Assault Unit RN


Canada


12th Regiment of Manitoba Dragoons - XII Manitoba Dragoons ( II Canadian Corps / II. Canadian Corps) 1943 -


Poland


1st Armoured Division - 1st Polish Armoured Division - 1st Dywizja Pancerna


Belgium


1st Belgian Infantry Brigade
(Brigade Piron)



Source : Staghound armored car 1942-1962, Steven J Zaloga; Peter Bull; Osprey Publishing; ISBN 978-1-84603-392-6
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Overview of user countries and units after World War II



Great Britain
The British Army used Staghounds until the late 1940s and they were subsequently sold to the Allied armies.
British troops with whom Staghounds served after the end of World War II :


4th Reconnaissance Regiment (Greece)
23rd Armoured Brigade (Greece)
1st Royal Dragoon Guards Regiment -1st King's Dragoon Guards (Egypt, Lebanon,Syria)


Australia
In service from 08/1943, the number of vehicles reached 279 in 1944. However, they were never deployed in combat, and after the end of II. War they were used mainly for training purposes. By the late 1970s, the last 36 units had reached the end of their service life.


Regular Army
1st Armoured Car Squadron
The squadron operated as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force Japan and was armed with 16 vehicles (other sources give 18).The unit was formed at Puckapunyal on 21 January 1946 and sailed for Japan in April. It operated in Japan until December 1948, then returned to Australia and was renamed the 1st Armoured Regiment.


Reserve units
3./9. Light Horse Regiment (South Australian Mounted Rifles) - 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australian Mounted Rifles)
1./15. Royal New South Wales Lancers - 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers
12th/16th Hunter River Lancers



Denmark
8 Staghound Mk.III 75mm were handed over to the Danes in 1946 and were retired from service in 1953.


Netherlands
The Dutch Army received 108 vehicles After active service ended, they were encased in concrete and used for stationary airfield defence.


Greece
The Greeks took over a small number of vehicles from the British troops that served here in the 1940s.


Italy
Since 1945, more than 100 Staghounds have been included in the armament of the Italian Army and Carabinieri. After being taken out of the army's arsenal, 60 machines were assigned to the police, where the 37mm gun was replaced by the Breda Mod 35 machine gun.


Cavaleria Blindata della Somalia as part of the UN forces serving in Somalia from 1950 to the mid-1950s.


Policia di Stato - Reparti Celere - Special Police Rapid Response Units


Switzerland
Switzerland purchased 64 Staghounds in the early 1950s in the UK, where they were rearmed with a 20 mm gun or 4.7 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 41.


Egypt
50 pieces


Syria
52 pieces



Sudan
Several pieces were commissioned and were modified using the turret of the AEC Mk III armoured vehicle and armed with 75mm Sherman tank guns.
Saudi Arabia


Rhodesia
Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment
was reformed after the end of World War II and equipped with 20 Staghounds, where they operated until the 1950s. After the regiment was disbanded, they were transferred to the support group of the 1st Rhodesian Light Infantry Regiment (1st Rhodesian Light Infantry) for border protection.



Transjordan


Lebanon
56 units of various versions have served with the army and police since 1955. They were involved in fighting in the civil war on all sides and were still active until recently. 16 pieces were modified using the turret of the AEC Mk III armoured vehicle.


Israel
The Israel Defense Forces acquired 112 demilitarized vehicles from Britain, excluding guns and radios for reconnaissance units. The machines were delivered in stages between December 1951 and early 1953. However, the Israelis were unable to obtain suitable 37mm guns for these machines; they were only able to do so in 1955, when they purchased 100 pieces of suitable armament. At that time, they had already begun equipping their reconnaissance units with French AMX-13s. Therefore, the requirement was reduced to 36 machines and the following units were armed with them


181st Reconnaissance Battalion
182nd Reconnaissance Battalion


The fate of the remaining Israeli Staghounds was particularly curious. The Israeli government offered them for sale through arms dealer Isaac
Irving Davidson. Davidson was well connected to Anastasio Somoza's regime in Nicaragua and Fulgecia Batista in Cuba. In 1957, the Israeli government approved the sale of 68 rifles to Somoza in return for supplying Israel with rifles during the 1948 embargo. Davidson subsequently arranged a trade between Nicaragua and Cuba, which thus acquired 28 originally Israeli Staghounds.


Nicaragua
40 vehicles served with the National Guard, specifically the 1o Battalón Blindado
with their original armament until the late 1960s, and were subsequently rearmed with American-made 0.50 machine guns due to ammunition shortages. In 1979, after Somoza fled the country, about 20 Staghounds were still operational and were replaced by Soviet equipment from 1981 onwards.


Cuba
The Batista regime acquired 28 originally Israeli Staghounds via Nicaragua, and similarly several others from Egypt. The vehicles were heavily used during the civil war, yet some survived it and were subsequently used by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.



Honduras
Honduras acquired several units from the US during 1951, which the US Army used, as test vehicles.


Source : Staghound armored car 1942-1962, Steven J Zaloga; Peter Bull; Osprey Publishing; ISBN 978-1-84603-392-6[/i]

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Staghound Mk.I neznámé britské jednotky bojující na západní frontě, jediné označení byly bílé hvězdy


Zdroj: HPM 2007/4

Staghound Mk.I "Dzielny" of the Polish 15 Pułk Ułanów Poznańskich, which fought in the autumn of 1944 in Italy


Source: HPM 2007/4[/i]

Staghound Mk.I of Italian Carabinieri in Milan


Source: HPM 2007/4[/i]

Staghound Mk.I polského Pułku Ułanów Karpackich

Vozidlo z Královského vojenského muzea v Bruselu, 2003.

Staghound, probably in British or Canadian service, photo probably from Italy.

Exemplář z muzea v Saumuru.

(©Radek Havelka)

Vlastní foto Bovington 05

(©Radek Havelka)

the Monument and the museum of the Armored corps, Latrun own photo, 2017.

Staghound neboli obrněné vozidlo Chevrolet T17E1, vyzbrojené kanonem M6 ráže 37 mm. Objednáno v roce 1942 pro potřeby US Army, nicméně později nezavedeno, veškerá produkce dodána do VB. Zajímavé je, že T17 měl dva motory - GMC 270. Max. rychlost 89 km/h, dojezd 724 km. Vyrobeno 2687 ks.

Severoamerické armádní označení prototypu: T17E1
Britské armádní označení: Armoured Car Staghound Mk. I


Vážení,
ukořistil jsem níže uvedený materiál ve formátu PDF o velikosti asi 92 MB, v jazyce anglickém, kvalita skenu horší střed. Vážným zájemcům poskytnu k prostudování.


Poznámka pod čarou:
Podle některých pramenů se zavedlo takzvané armádní označení M6, podle jiných se jedná o mylnou informaci!

Existovalo několik verzí, nejrozšířenější Staghound Mk.I, existovala i verze Mk.II s věží ze samohybné houfnice M8 (75mm) a Mk.III s věží tanku Crusader s kanonem. Dále velitelská verze s jiným radiovybavením.