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The Dutch army kept them in use for quite some time too, though they seem to have been phased out in the 1950s or so, from 512 of various versions in 1948 down to 439 in 1951 and 112 in 1954. Then back up to 242 personnel carriers plus 224 M16 quad-fifties from MDAP deliveries. I can’t find when those were disposed of again, but probably in the 1960s after the AMX and M113 came in. I also saw an interesting photograph taken at a RNLAF firing range at (IIRC) Vlieland, of a truck of a make I don’t remember, which had been fitted with M2/M3 halftrack bogies in place of its rear axle, plus tracks from an M29 Weasel. There’s a model I kind of want to build 