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Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:12 am
by Spencer54
Always had an interest in these due to my family connection.
Anyway I thought I'd add this Scout car story for you as its not widely known as far as I can tell.

My Great Uncle drove one of these in Normandy, indeed waded ashore in it on D-Day +5.
He told me it was almost completely under water and was the longest minutes of his life.
I had previously argued with a chap who insisted there were no SCs there, but there clearly were.

The Scout car in question was a very unusual one - it was a sonic warfare model.
According to my Uncles description it was carrying in the rear cinematic sound kit speakers and recordings.
It had for some reason the roller removed from the front and all gun rails removed.

This was still classified until recently and prior to me proving this he wouldn't talk about it.
Anyway, from what I can gather he was part of the the 3rd Scout Car Company that was operating as part of the Ghost Army.
Drove around playing sounds of tanks moving about and also at some point "come out and surrender" type of Psyops material.
He went right through the war in a Scout car as the driver except for a small stint as infantry during the Bulge to hold a bridge.

I have been trying without success to find a picture of one of these - so if anyone knows of one I'd love to see it.

Re: Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:11 am
by Cyclefreak13
Though I didn't see a scout car I did see this documentary awhile back. The video in the link shows several vehicles with the speaker units mounted.

https://youtu.be/JZOHNaVeWgQ

Re: Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:43 am
by Spencer54
Jeez,

Been looking for ages and found another post I put on a forum years ago came up trumps.
So just for completeness this is what it looks like.

Image

Re: Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:28 pm
by bharr
Can't get photo to open. Anyone else having this problem?

Re: Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:03 pm
by Boyso
Image

You have to be a member of the WW2talk forum to see it, I uploaded a copy of it here.

Re: Sonic Scout Car

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:09 am
by ferdockm
Wow, that's really fantastic, Boyso. Thanks for the story! Any chance you have photos from your uncle of him in it? Or more detailed shots of what's under the tarp?