The Universal Carrier / Bren Gun Carrier

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  • @charliesword8101
    @charliesword8101 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    The clip at the beginning from Longest Day was my favorite scene in the entire movie I’m so happy you included it

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว +30

      It was the inspiration for the whole video lol

    • @User_Un_Friendly
      @User_Un_Friendly ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That was Kenneth More, as Captain Colin Maud. He also played Captain Shepard on the classic movie Sink the Bismarck.😮. (Also in Sink the Bismarck was the extraordinarily lovely Dana Wynter. 😊)

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Denis Healey...ex Chancellor of the exchequer, was a beach master at Anzio...

    • @miketaylorID1
      @miketaylorID1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      “Give it a good BASH!!” I often say it myself. TLD is a favorite movie in our house. Many a line has made it into our daily vernacular

    • @AlexSDU
      @AlexSDU ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In this scene we saw James Bond as a Army corporal before he joined the Royal Navy as an intelligent officer for the MI6. 😆

  • @bobmetcalfe9640
    @bobmetcalfe9640 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Farmers in NZ sometimes bought surplus carriers after the war. Very useful for carrying fence posts over rough country. 🙂

    • @spencerh4428
      @spencerh4428 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      my family had a bren gun carrier for the farm

    • @urizen7613
      @urizen7613 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've heard stories of ANZAC Day Bren carrier races back in the day.

    • @minuteman4199
      @minuteman4199 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same in Canada. You would regularly see them for sale at heavy equipment auctions up until the 80, but I haven't seen one in decades.

    • @Kysushanz
      @Kysushanz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep, down Dunedin way, my father went hunting with a Farmer who used a Bren Carrier - he also had a BREN for it as well. I was told of a story that while out hunting the BREN opened up on a group of Fallow deer while on the move. Because of the suspension, the carrier took a sudden dip then lurched and the BREN shot up the internals. I think they gave up hunting the rest of the day, preferring a cool beer.

    • @timcoffey5927
      @timcoffey5927 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aussies got all the grants and lees left behind and took the turrets of and used them as tractors

  • @Blitz9H
    @Blitz9H ปีที่แล้ว +122

    A Canadian Veteran told about using the Wasp version to attack German columns.
    I’ve driven a Bren carrier. It can be squirrelly, but it is fun to drive…In peacetime

    • @okobongdinko
      @okobongdinko ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What is a wasp variant? And how effective was it?

    • @Blitz9H
      @Blitz9H ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@okobongdinko Flamethrower version. It was devastating when used correctly and the fates smiled upon them

    • @okobongdinko
      @okobongdinko ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Blitz9H ah right, sounds deadly

    • @Blitz9H
      @Blitz9H ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@okobongdinko Definitely. He said one of his friends was attacking a German column and the engine cut out on his Bren gun carrier. The Germans “shot them like fish in a barrel”

    • @okobongdinko
      @okobongdinko ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Blitz9H that sounds awful, the carrier didn't offer much protection so they didn't have much of a chance but it just sounds awful

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    The Universal Carrier is an adorable little machine. She may be small, but she's fierce.
    CV/33: "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"

    • @thekhoifish0146
      @thekhoifish0146 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      i've seen one up close before, it's kinda cute

    • @ThatWelshGuy.
      @ThatWelshGuy. ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@thekhoifish0146very cute

    • @thekhoifish0146
      @thekhoifish0146 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ThatWelshGuy. indeed

    • @ThatWelshGuy.
      @ThatWelshGuy. ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thekhoifish0146 where did you see it?
      I saw one at bovington

    • @Nugire
      @Nugire ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm sure the CV/33 would still manage to loose.

  • @brustar5152
    @brustar5152 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    A step up from this was the Canadian developed Kangaroo, a Sherman without the turret and it's basket, but with ladder rungs welded to sides for quick ingress/egress. Arguably the first APC able to carry a number of troops in relative safety from most attacks other than from above.

    • @zzirSnipzz1
      @zzirSnipzz1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Schneider-Brillié model 1909 was the first ever apc.

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Just an additional fact: The Universal Carrier suspension (also developed from the Carden Loyd tankette) was so sucessful, that the Germans took it literally, though it was the American produced carrier, and apply it to their trucks replacing the rear wheels as a measure to overcome the rasputitsa on the Eastern Front. They called it the Maultier, meaning mule.

    • @DIREWOLFx75
      @DIREWOLFx75 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sorry, but the tracked part of the Maultier had nothing to do with the UC, it was literally the track assembly from Pz-Is mounted on trucks.
      As in, not copied but taken directly from actual Pz-Is.
      Also, heavier Maultiers instead used the suspension parts from Pz-IIs instead.

    • @wolframherzog636
      @wolframherzog636 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DIREWOLFx75 There are various variants of the Maultier - and yes, one of them used the carrier Tracks. One of such vehicles is on display at the Technik Museum Sinsheim/ Germany

  • @johnf3885
    @johnf3885 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    We had an old Bren Carrier on the playground at my junior school, It came from a local RAF airfield after the war. The engine and various bits and pieces had been removed but we had hours of fun playing war games. I do believe it was sold by the school in the mid-70s to a collector.

  • @piobmhor8529
    @piobmhor8529 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I spent a lot of time on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. On the island was a rusted out old shell of a Bren Gun Carrier. I asked around and found out that it was purchased through Crown Assets in the 1950s, brought to the island and became the first motorized vehicle there. It was used for everything from hauling groceries to building materials to injured people. Where it rests today is where it broke down. They stripped it of anything useful and repurposed it all. The transmission was shot, but the engine was still ok, so it was welded to the shaft of a generator. This provided electricity to the staff buildings for years until replaced with a diesel one. Decades of salt air has taken its toll on the frame, but it’s still recognizable as a Bren Gun Carrier.

  • @monkekrieg9405
    @monkekrieg9405 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My great grandfather, Edward Rotan helped develop some of the prototype vehicles for the universal carrier in the old Somerville mass ford plant

  • @garbage_bin2739
    @garbage_bin2739 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow, i didn't know NZ (my home country) made these thing!
    fun fact: the NZ designed, but never made Schofield Tank did also use the suspension from a Universal Carrier.
    Although a first prototype design that performed badly in trials was made along with a improved one, unfortunately the whole tank never saw the light of day again and was stored away, then scrapped as the project was advised to stop.

  • @drewdederer8965
    @drewdederer8965 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One thing that was noted in an article for a war game. The Carrier section was Organic at Battalion level in a British Infantry division. Since Tanks and TD's were only attached on an "as needed" basis (unlike an American Division, which post-Normandy had about 100 tanks and TDs (60/40 mix) more-or-less organic to the division). The carriers were the one trump card a battalion commander could depend on having "on call" whether to scout, haul ammo or wounded, or cover a retreat. Occasionally they would haul troops (riding on the sides), if you needed to get a company somewhere quickly, though they really weren't APCs.

    • @abdullahrizwan592
      @abdullahrizwan592 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Carriers whould also haul the battalions anti-tank guns (6-pounders)

  • @hadesdogs4366
    @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    As a side note they were fantastic during the pacific war in which being very small and very light allowed the Australians to outflank or bypass most areas which were impassable for the Japanese as well as being a great way of getting around if not to and from places in which tires or wheeled vehicles would typically get stuck or bog down and some versions of the UC were amphibious which meant that things like river crossings wasn’t that big of an issue considering that the three alternatives were to build a bridge which took time and resources, look for an alternative route or simply swim across a crocodile infested river, vs driving along in a UC, and again they really are underrated, yes it was weakly armored and it wasn’t the most comfortable thing to be bouncing around in and the thing was very exposed but apart from that, it was just there and it just did it’s job.

    • @waynebimmel6784
      @waynebimmel6784 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey, you forgot these: ...,,,:!

    • @hadesdogs4366
      @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@waynebimmel6784 ?

    • @waynebimmel6784
      @waynebimmel6784 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hadesdogs4366 nice comment but some punctuation would have been helpful

    • @hadesdogs4366
      @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@waynebimmel6784 NEVER

    • @zarnold1995
      @zarnold1995 ปีที่แล้ว

      I read it just fine, hades.

  • @the40scall90
    @the40scall90 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You’re legendary for using that legendary scene from The Longest Day as the intro!

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I have also seen this military vehicle in "The one that got away" (1957) and "Operation Dunkirk" (2017) . My grandpa used to call this thing rocking horses in the second world war.

  • @Sandman_04-l8u
    @Sandman_04-l8u ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ive been fortunate enough to get an up close and personal look at an australian bren gun carrier, such a cool and neat little vehicle.

  • @couchbanana343
    @couchbanana343 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Wait my country built tanks wow I thought we would've duct taped metal to horses 😂...cheers Johnny have an excellent day

    • @Shitbird3249
      @Shitbird3249 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Have mum strap the bathtub to the tractor

    • @User_Un_Friendly
      @User_Un_Friendly ปีที่แล้ว +39

      If you're from New Zealand, mate, the Bob Semple tank was considerably worse than metal duct taped to horses. It basically was a metal bathtub strapped to a Caterpillar tractor. 🤣🤣🤣🫣

    • @couchbanana343
      @couchbanana343 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@User_Un_Friendly hahaha now that's a real weapon of mass destruction

    • @amxelcbis4464
      @amxelcbis4464 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ​​​@@User_Un_Friendly ok but:
      * japan never invaded new zealand
      * no bob semple tanks were ever lost
      * easily produced
      👍

    • @panthercreek60
      @panthercreek60 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thumbs up from Alabama

  • @asteroidrules
    @asteroidrules ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the fascinating things about the Universal Carrier is just how beloved it was. Many tankettes and field tractors either didn't leave enough of an impact to be memorable, or were poorly received by those who used them. The carrier on the other hand, despite being known for being finicky to operate, became quite popular among Allied forces who used it and would continue to be exported for both military and civilian use long after the war.

    • @abdullahrizwan592
      @abdullahrizwan592 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      to be fair, the Universal Carrier was used more for logistics than front-line combat like the tankettes. However, it was a great transport vehicle, able to carry anything from a mortar team to a 6-pounder and even functioning as a low-capacity APC. Also, due to speed it could scout.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They are surprisingly quiet and zippy, you don't realise just how fast they are. They were never to be used as armoured vehicles, this point had to be explained to more than one officer who sent them into combat thinking they were like mini tanks.
    On a more sober note, my neighbour, who was a desert war veteran (artilleryman), told a tale of 'defective' men being taught how to drive them. The men were of below a certain level of intelligence.
    After they were taught and got used to the carriers, the vehicles would be loaded up with sandbags and sent into minefields to clear them.
    The impression I got was this not common army practice, the men and vehicles were saved for a major attack.
    Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist saying "But but that's not on any official records!" or "But but that is a waste of vehicles!" or "But but Why didn't you take photographs or video it on your phone!" Remember:
    1) This was told to me by a WW2 veteran of the desert war. I *personally* did not witness it, I was not even born in WW2.
    2) Do you think anyone, even then, would have written that down?
    3) It was considered better to risk and use up a single man and his machine rather than a tank with crew or the lives of the sappers etc who would have to carefully clear a path under fire.
    4) The man may survive and the vehicle stood a chance of being repaired.
    5) Photos may exist of the men, my neighbour showed me a picture of a group of men with their carriers (No I don't have it, its was 40+ years ago)
    6) Mobile phones hadn't been invented then, no I can't go back in time to take pictures (You would be surprised how often someone suggests something along those lines)
    7) You don't have to believe me, it's not going to affect your life or those of you around you. If you think I'm full of crock, just nod to yourself and have a nice weekend.

  • @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
    @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:23 A friend just shared me your video. I was surprised to see a almost 8 year old video of mine here :D
    I#ve watched a few of videos in the past but I think this is the first time I left a comment.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glad you popped in! Thanks for the clip. Hope you didn't mind 👍🙏

  • @scuppersthesailordog
    @scuppersthesailordog ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My father (Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, went to England in 1940, came home in 1946 via Caen, Belgium and Holland) disliked them as they had, he said, a tendency to flip.

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Interesting Fact:
    The Germans and the Italians captured dozens of Universal Carriers and really liked the qualities of the vehicle. The Germans mounted several types of anti-tank guns and even Panzerschrecks! The Italians tried to copy the Universal Carrier but lost the competition to the L 40 Cingoletta (based on the Semovente L 40 da 47/32 tank destroyer).

  • @AuroraWolf655
    @AuroraWolf655 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel like you could buy a dozen of these and use them as go karts

  • @animelovers000
    @animelovers000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandfather's dad was a bren gun carrier driver when he was in Burama fighting the Japanese. I sadly didn't get to meet him as he died in the early 80s about 10 years before i was born

  • @rotwang2000
    @rotwang2000 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Friends of mine bought one in the early 90's to restore, we hid behind a wall when they first started it, but it wouldn't move. They did about 15-20% of the work before they lost interest sat in a garage and was sold on a decade later.
    When one of their relatives heard they had bought one, he warned them that it could be extremely dangerous having seen an accident where the drive chain snapped, causing the carrier to flip and crushing the people inside.
    One funny detail is that in the opinion of some military historians the Universal Carrier may actually have been the only correct implementation of the tankette, which was to have a highly mobile armoured vehicle with a machinegun that could act as a mobile pillbox. Governments saw the tankette as a very cheap way to have large tank armies, a job for which they were never suited.

    • @nicklatheron8795
      @nicklatheron8795 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drive chain?

    • @brustar5152
      @brustar5152 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nicklatheron8795 Nope! They had a central drive shaft that was above the belly plate but covered from front to rear so even if it broke at the front joint all it would do was flail around inside the cover and scare the living **** out of you. It could not drop to the ground to pole-vault the vehicle as suggested by the relative in rotwang2000's post..

    • @nicklatheron8795
      @nicklatheron8795 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brustar5152 That's what I thought. I've been in a couple of UC's and built models of them.

  • @marcuseasoniiyt
    @marcuseasoniiyt ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Give it a good bash!" 😂

  • @Patrickmc_92
    @Patrickmc_92 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:25 thought he was vaping 😂

  • @bigrobnz
    @bigrobnz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thanks for showing how the steering worked....I have always wondered....

  • @frednone
    @frednone ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If given the choice between a UC and a Jeep, I think I would take a UC, unless were were looking at long cross country travel.

  • @mikesmith2905
    @mikesmith2905 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A lightly armoured fully tracked jeep, what's not to like (other than the rocking motion when moving). The Germans adopted the track system for the SdKfz.3 Maultier half track truck (although that was closer to the Dragon artillery tractor, a forerunner of the Universal, with 4 road wheels).

  • @zhicaofang2354
    @zhicaofang2354 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love all those goofy moments of game bugs in the video LMAO

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Goofy clips are the heart and soul of the channel!

  • @ak9989
    @ak9989 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A friend of mine's dad in high school had one in Fawnskin near Big Bear Lake. Used it do drive around the back roads in winter.

  • @n.a.4292
    @n.a.4292 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Red Orchestra - Ostfront is the only game I can think of where you could use a land-leased Universal Carrier armed with a DT machine gun.

    • @letemplierchevaliers2751
      @letemplierchevaliers2751 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Forgotten Hope 2 has lend leased UCs even armed with DTs as well.

  • @abdullahrizwan592
    @abdullahrizwan592 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of my favourite WW2 vehicles, very underrated.

  • @Aren-1997
    @Aren-1997 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That "Praying Mantis" prototype looks like something out of Star Wars haha.

    • @killerkraut9179
      @killerkraut9179 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think a new variant as drone would be very efective !

  • @roybennett9284
    @roybennett9284 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My dad was in the home guard and thought highly of them better than a roller coaster.

    • @roybennett9284
      @roybennett9284 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why didn't the yanks use them? Kind regards Roy Bennett from Wollongong

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well done. I would have recommended the differences between the Loyd Carrier and the Universal Carrier.

    • @Lord.Kiltridge
      @Lord.Kiltridge ปีที่แล้ว

      I meant commenting on the differences between the Loyd Carrier and the Universal Carrier.

  • @Vextonomy
    @Vextonomy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:23 ah yes the British strategy of no clipping and flinging their vehicle to paradrop their infantrymen

  • @GameFuMaster
    @GameFuMaster ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:24 historically accurate use of the universal carrier, which could also function as a paratrooping vehicle when needed. Which also secondarily functions as a one use artillery

  • @frankroy9423
    @frankroy9423 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My uncle was in the 2nd war and he was in the bren gun carrier. One story he said, they had just given a German position a good working over with their carrier then made for the hills. Then a little later were hit with an artillery shell. 3 of the guys didn't make it. He did make it home from the war.

  • @AnonEMus-cp2mn
    @AnonEMus-cp2mn ปีที่แล้ว

    Of note at 0:26, initial doctrine for employing the Bren gun was for it to be carried unloaded with the dust cover closed, and only upon contact the gunner may load for combat. For obvious reasons this line of thinking was quickly discarded.

  • @kellymcbright5456
    @kellymcbright5456 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That thing belongs to every war game, just like the "VW Kübelwagen" of Germany or the US' "Willy's Jeep" which appears in the video, too :)

  • @rileyernst9086
    @rileyernst9086 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like to think that the German Wiesel is the spiritual sucsessor to the bren carrier. Looks like they use same suspension too.

  • @graemerigg4029
    @graemerigg4029 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was one on Blackpool seafront in the sixties with a wooden platform on the back for carry tourists out to waiting boats for trips up and down the coast.

  • @comediccarnage8059
    @comediccarnage8059 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love your stuff, this vid looks great!

  • @LizardSpork
    @LizardSpork ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Fun Fact: Despite the name "Universal Carrier", this vehicle, in fact, could not go anywhere in the universe and is limited to the planet Earth nor could it carry the entire universe.

    • @righty5890
      @righty5890 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What !? Ok im telling god...

    • @scottishscott3504
      @scottishscott3504 ปีที่แล้ว

      Way to ruin everything

    • @MrCantStopTheRobot
      @MrCantStopTheRobot หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your claims regarding the Universal
      Carrier are debatable at best.

  • @Chiller01
    @Chiller01 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Jeep was a little more useful as a post war surplus vehicle. I’m so old I remember my father had one when I was a little kid. He welded an old pickup truck cab to it to make it a four season vehicle in Colorado.

    • @gratefulguy4130
      @gratefulguy4130 ปีที่แล้ว

      That sounds more "4 seasons" for the Front Range than the mountains. I've spent nights that were -30° up there.

  • @WILLIAM1690WALES
    @WILLIAM1690WALES ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Of all places I was in Canberra Australia went round the parliament, then went round at the nearby military museum, and that’s when I got close up to a universal carrier open topped, but a very useful piece of kit because it was so adaptability and could be used in numerous ways with good crew

  • @danconlin3456
    @danconlin3456 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great roundup on the history and characteristics of the Universal carrier. Two extra things worth noting, 1) among the weapons fitted was a formidable flamethrower versions called the Wasp, much feared by Germans in defensive positions in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1944-45. 2) The universal carrier appears in an amusing 1942 film called "If Day" depicting an imagined German occupation of Winnipeg. Universal carriers stand in for German armour: th-cam.com/video/8scLEt70yIE/w-d-xo.html

  • @kellybreen5526
    @kellybreen5526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe that the Universal Carrier is the most produced armoured vehicle in history. Most people think it is the T-34, but about twice as many carriers were manufactured.
    Just throwing it out there for trivia nerds. Let me know if I am mistaken.

  • @riptide1ful
    @riptide1ful ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm still waiting for the Jeep.

  • @william5666
    @william5666 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    4:32 didn’t mention that they could fly

  • @barkershill
    @barkershill ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes I can remember them being used on farms here in England . Can also remember back in the 1950s seeing them packed into a field of about an acre behind a garage waiting to be cut up for scrap

  • @terran6686
    @terran6686 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The US had a relatively similar vehicle as the UC called the High Speed Tractors. They were typically light tanks given truck cabs and made to tow large guns from the 155 Long Tom to the 8 inch Gun M1 and even a 240mm Howitzer. However none of these vehicles were as armored as the UC nor as light, and all the different vehicles designed as HSTs were equally unarmed. They were not made to see any exchange of fire, even with an HMG for defense

    • @joewalker2152
      @joewalker2152 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not Quite. They weren't typically truck cabs built on a light tank. They were specifically designed and although the drive train and suspension looks like Stuart light tanks suspension, they were their own design.
      Their name tells you why they weren't armoured, High Speed Tractors, Tractors for towing artillery. M5 for field artillery, M4 for medium and heavy anti-aircraft guns/artillery and M6 which replaced the M4 for heavy artillery. The High Speed part of the name was to differentiate between horse-drawn (slow speed) and vehicular (high speed).
      Also, they were armed with a M2 50 cal on a ring mount for anti-aircraft self-defence.

  • @dmikulec
    @dmikulec ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They were built in the US too at the Medford, MA Ford plant.

  • @Erga_Stolano
    @Erga_Stolano ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where in the heck did you manage to find a clip of The Best of Enemies with the english dub? I wanna see that movie in english too!

  • @leecrt967
    @leecrt967 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I KNEW you were going to start this one with "The Longest Day."
    How could you pick anything else?

  • @na8291
    @na8291 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it's vehicles like this and the deuce and a half that won the war for the allies

  • @Mag_Aoidh
    @Mag_Aoidh ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the reminder, I still laugh at the “floating Shermans” in A Bridge Too Far.”

  • @hadesdogs4366
    @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Honestly the true work horse of the British army and by British army that includes everyone such as the Indians, Africans, Australians ect where the two biggest and heaviest vehicles at the time doing most of the work loads was the Bedford truck and the universal carrier, be it used as a reconnaissance vehicle, a mortar platform, a mobile flame thrower, troop transport, a command or communications vehicle with added radio equipment, an ambulance, mobile artillery, even a light tank, anything and everything the British needed or wanted was through the universal carrier, add a machine gun to the front and you’ve got a mobile pillbox, add a few Besa machine guns to a rotating mount and a Bren gun on the front and you’ve got an anti infantry fighting vehicle and again, the UC truly is the unsung hero which tends to be over shadowed by its much larger counterparts like the tigers, Sherman’s and t34’s and funnily enough despite britian fight the war from start to finish, we don’t really hear much about the British during ww2 outside of a few small but major events but they tend to be forgotten especially on the big screen and the last British war film was 1917, other than that the British and again British includes colonial forces as well tend to be forgotten about despite contributing the most during the war.

    • @noreenbedford7106
      @noreenbedford7106 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Canada had nothing to do in WW2 they used us for shock troupes they put us in first.The Germans feared the Canadians and Hitler respect us .

  • @mackenshaw8169
    @mackenshaw8169 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They were still going strong in Korea. An ideal battle taxi it could say ferry men and supplies up to the front lines or back to the rear without exposing them to sniper fire unlike the jeep.

  • @gooraway1
    @gooraway1 ปีที่แล้ว

    That Ford V8 at its heart gave it the reliability and torque it needed. Good use of AWM clips

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I've driven this thing in BF5. Great for zipping to an objective quickly ...if you can manage to not flip it over

  • @well-blazeredman6187
    @well-blazeredman6187 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kenneth More - the Beachmaster - spent his WW2 as a Royal Navy officer. He served in the cruiser AURORA and the carrier VICTORIOUS.

  • @ericferguson9989
    @ericferguson9989 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The sidewalk plows in my hometown were converted Universal Carriers.

  • @grubblepidd2567
    @grubblepidd2567 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video! A video on the katyusha artillery piece would be cool@

  • @joeleonard9965
    @joeleonard9965 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you start listing torque figures with the vehicle drivetrains? That is the far more important number than horsepower when talking about pretty much any military vehicle.

  • @nor0845
    @nor0845 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just a brilliant piece of kit.

  • @peterwebb8732
    @peterwebb8732 ปีที่แล้ว

    My father trained in Carriers with the AIF in 1942. The unit was issued the Tank Attack version, a lengthened chassis with a 2pdr AT gun on the back, and received orders for North Africa. Then the Japanese bombed Darwin so no Australian troops were going anywhere but New Guinea and Carriers were not deemed suitable for the terrain.
    I have photgraphs.

  • @sammni
    @sammni ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandad used these and loved them in Korea and Malaya (he's still alive)

  • @CNX625
    @CNX625 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It looks like fun to operate. Love to ride in one someday.

  • @actionjackson1stIDF
    @actionjackson1stIDF ปีที่แล้ว

    Germans loved the UC as well and put all those captured at Dunkirk to good use. In North Africa Germany mounted a 37MM AT gun to top of carrier. On Russian Front Germans loaded them with explosives and used them to breach fortifications by using a remote control. Most were used in Crimea during the siege of Sevastopol. However these were not as reliable as those used by the Africa Corp.

  • @myopickid4180
    @myopickid4180 ปีที่แล้ว

    During the childhood, i often give "anything mechanical give it a good bash" to my old NES console

  • @SnEaKyGiTau
    @SnEaKyGiTau ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good show!, was the wasp based on a bren carrier?, also I think some were armed with vickers machine guns and some with 2 pounder cannons, also many were shipped to the soviets.

  • @hadesdogs4366
    @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s honestly a simple yet rugged little vehicle being both highly mobile and to some extent even amphibious and personally I’d choose a universal carrier over a jeep any day

  • @KomradeLeonski
    @KomradeLeonski ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A shipment of Bren Gun Carriers meant for the defense of Hong Kong was stuck in the Port of Manila and was commandsered by Fil American forces defending Bataan

  • @GrishaDerp
    @GrishaDerp ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love it, but I'm sad that the wasp flamethrower wasn't mentioned.

    • @User_Un_Friendly
      @User_Un_Friendly ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or the British tank equipped with a flamethrower. 😮

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@User_Un_Friendly a Churchill variant ,I think....perhaps one General Hobart,s funnies..?...

  • @theredarticfox2656
    @theredarticfox2656 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You didn’t talk about the wasp variant

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The "Japanese tank" in "The Fighting Seabees" is an ex-Canadian Army carrier with a dummy superstructure.

  • @Great_Sandwich
    @Great_Sandwich ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man, what I wouldn't give to scoot around in that thing for an hour.

  • @tristan1234567890
    @tristan1234567890 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:00 till 0:10 heard it first when i was just a we little boy. still use it today

  • @dasiksupahuman
    @dasiksupahuman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Be me an Australian with an LS V8 in my shed. Learns these were built in Australia. Manically uses my 3 beer soaked braincells.

  • @bruno640
    @bruno640 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dang, those bumps made my kidney's hurt just glancing at them, lol!

  • @edwardhumphries8806
    @edwardhumphries8806 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandfather used these in the desert he only described a few actions as I remember harassing the germans was a common role

  • @ak9989
    @ak9989 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These were used as tanks during one assault at Lae in 42. Sadly they were all knocked out. They could not destroy the Japanese bunkers with Mgs

  • @hadesdogs4366
    @hadesdogs4366 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly an unsung little hero

  • @billballbuster7186
    @billballbuster7186 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Vickers Bren, Scout and Cavalry Carriers were replaced on the production line by the Universal Carrier in 1940, the Bren and later Universal Carriers were also built in Australia and Canada. There was also a larger series with 4 road wheels, these were the Loyd, Canadian Windsor and American T16, these were used a Gun Tractors, Personnel Carriers and Service Carriers. India built a 4x4 Wheeled Carrier during WWII. After WWII the Oxford and Cambridge Carriers were built in small numbers, the Cambridge being used th the FV432 APC development in the 1960s.

  • @sinisterisrandom8537
    @sinisterisrandom8537 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder if there was ever a variant that's a tankette..

  • @mikegord
    @mikegord ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a photo of my late father standing next to a Bren Carrier. It was taken in Palestine/Syria when Australian troops were fighting the
    Vichy French.

  • @anthonyburke5656
    @anthonyburke5656 ปีที่แล้ว

    They were made all over the world, with many variations, when I was a kid they were used on farms doing everything from carting livestock and feed, to land clearing.

  • @vilo_h5541
    @vilo_h5541 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Equally good for fighting the Axis and monsters from outer space!

  • @masterbuilderproductions
    @masterbuilderproductions ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Krag Jorgensen?

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn ปีที่แล้ว

      No it's the Universal Carrier, colloquially known as "Bren Carrier"

  • @cleanerben9636
    @cleanerben9636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was a pretty nifty machine. Like a tracked jeep(a treep).

  • @bobmurdoch4719
    @bobmurdoch4719 ปีที่แล้ว

    😅when I was at Scott Base, NZ's Antarctic Base in 1966-67, there was a bren gun carrier. However, I believe that the narrow tracks made it not too suitable for field use. It was taken out to our ski run and used to power the rope ski lift. Probably the most exclusive ski club in the world.

  • @BobSmith-dk8nw
    @BobSmith-dk8nw ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What the Americans used - was the M3 Halftrack.
    .

  • @bertiewooster3326
    @bertiewooster3326 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With lovely V8 Flathead engine great on the M25 .

  • @Kitsunekun69
    @Kitsunekun69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this tank since i was a kid, i want it in warthunder, the one with a boys rifle, or AA variant, or maybe both.

  • @miatamarine1210
    @miatamarine1210 ปีที่แล้ว

    You missed a critical opportunity to tell us to “Take care-ier” at the end
    Fantastic video as always!!!

  • @frederikbeckers8923
    @frederikbeckers8923 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I remember it correctly, they was one of the first IFV of the West German Bundeswehr. Ore they was planned for the Panzergrenadiere Mechanical Infantry

  • @geordiedog1749
    @geordiedog1749 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’ve had a ride in one of those!

  • @thestoicsteve
    @thestoicsteve ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these mini videos. Keep them coming if you can!