The above photo was reportedly taken in April 2005, at a former Iraqi Republican Guard base called Taji.
However, in 2008 personnel with the Combat Repair Team, Bravo Company, 225th Brigade Support Battalion, claimed they ‘found’ the old M8 Greyhound armored car in the Camp Taji ‘boneyard’.
There were reports that ‘higher-ups’ of the 225th Brigade Support Battalion were trying to find a way to justify bringing the old World War Two survivor back to Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii. There were even local newspaper articles about it.
So far, I have found nothing indicating that the Iraqi M8 ever got to Hawaii. I’ve read an armor registry forum which stated there was an M8 on display in Hawaii, but nobody has posted any photos of it. Schofield Barracks has the Tropic Lighting Museum, but among all the photos of the museum displays there is no M8.
I have found a website called Paratrooper Research Team, which has photos, via Christopher Carney, of a black painted M8 Greyhound on Camp Taji, and going by the dented stowage rack in between the front and rear fenders, I think its the same M8 in the above photos.
There were so many M8 Greyhounds produced that you can find many working examples taking part in World War Two reenactments.
This M8 was taking part in the 2014 reenactment of the Battle of the Bulge, in Belgium.
In the 1980s, Brazil built a new version of the M8, called the EE-9 Cascavel, and yes Iraq bought it.
This is an Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel, destroyed during the 1991 Operation Desert Storm.
The above photo purports to show 35 operational Iraqi EE-9s, as of 2008.
IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION