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Here we see a column of Bren Gun Carriers waiting by the roadside as Belgian refugees pass in the opposite direction on the Brussels-Louvain road on 12 May 1940, soon after the start of the German invasion of Belgium.
© IWM (F 4405)
Bren Gun Carrier – Britain’s Universal War Machine, Robert Jackson.
A look at one of the most numerous tracked vehicles in British service during the Second World War, originally designed to carry machine guns to the location where they were needed, but soon adapted to fulfil a much wider range of functions. Found wherever British and Commonwealth forces fought during the Second World War, this was one of the most flexibly vehicles in British service (Read Full Review)
