taken over and operated by the US 1st Provisional Tank Group) (received 200 before the end of 1941 and 2,560 Universal Carriers and similar Loyd Carriers starting from then until the end of WWII in 1945) (118 UCs operated in 1944, possibly supplied (covertly) by the UK) Yugoslav Partisans Post-war period (250, including T-16s, supplied by the UK between 1946 and 1950) (very likely obtained from a French trader, with some converted and modified locally with extra armour) (former British stocks, which were retired from frontline service in the 1960s) (some were armed with a M40 recoilless rifle) (possibly provided by departing British forces from the Middle East) (small numbers used by the French expeditionary corps, the CEFEO, fighting in Indochina) (small numbers of ex-Japanese stocks were captured and used by the People's Security Army during the Battle of Surabaya) (received many from withdrawing British troops in Palestine, aside from buying them from the scrapyards of various European countries after WWII and capturing them from Egypt between their conflicts) (former British stocks, which were retired from frontline service in 1961) (the Bundeswehr received 100 ex-British UCs in 1956) : a number operated following WWII (possibly ex-British UCs), especially in the independence war in their former colony of Indonesia (the Dutch East Indies) between 1945 and 1949, as part of the Indonesian National Revolution. A small number were lost and subsequently taken over by the new Indonesian Republic's military. (used and fielded predominantly US-built T16 versions of the Universal Carrier up until possibly the early 1960s) Gallery See also C2P Kettenkrad – German motorcycle-based half-track Komsomolets armored tractor Lorraine 37L Loyd Carrier M29 Weasel Raupenschlepper Ost TKS Notes References Further reading External links Universal Carrier production and technical data mapleleafup.net "The Ford Universal Carrier" diggerhistory.info "Bren Carrier" Britain's Carriers at wwiivehicles.com Eighth Army Bren Gun carrier in the Middle East, 1941 (photo) Bren Gun carrier with German Machine Gun in Gazala, Middle East, 1941 (photo) Assembling Bren Gun carriers in New Zealand (photo) Restored Bren Gun carrier being driven by a collector in Australia (video) Images of ex-Argentinean T16 carriers for sale (retrieved 2014-04-05) Tracked armoured personnel carriers World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom World War II armoured fighting vehicles of Australia World War II armoured fighting vehicles of Canada Artillery tractors World War II military equipment of Greece Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944