CMP Photographs | World War II Database

28 items in this album on 2 pages.


Canadian CMP 3/4-ton 4x4 truck undergoing testing, 1941. Note early cab design with rear swinging doors, rear sloping windscreen, and traditional front fenders (wings).	Canadian-built CMP Field Artillery Tractor being unloaded from a troop ship in Colombo harbor, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Feb 1942.	Bedford QL truck being loaded onto a LCT large landing craft during a training exercise, circa 1942, location unknown.	British driver posing with his Canadian Chevrolet-built CMP 4x4 truck in the North African desert, circa 1942.

Canadian Ford-built CMP 3/4-ton 2-wheel drive truck set to lead a British Royal Air Force convoy out Libya to Tunisia, circa 1942.	Canadian Ford-built CMP 3/4-ton 4x4 truck with Bedford-built after body serves as a windscreen for British soldiers setting up a tent in the North African desert, 1942.	A captured Canadian Ford-built CMP truck converted to carry a 2cm Flak 30 cannon in the German Afrika Korps, North Africa, 1943.	Canadian Chevrolet CMP C-60L 3-ton truck with early style cab design outside Wadi Sora in the Sahara Desert in southwestern Egypt, 1942-43.

CMP Field Artillery Tractor with gun in tow after suffering a mishap on an icy snow covered road, British Columbia, Canada, circa 1943	Members of the British 11th Royal Horse Artillery, First Armoured Division, pose with their Canadian Chevrolet-built CMP 4x4 truck, messenger motorcycle, and canine mascot, Tunisia, 22 Apr 1943.	Canadian-built Chevrolet CGT and 25-pdr field gun of 51st Highland Division, Militello, Sicily, Italy, 15 Jul 1943	Canadian Ford CMP basic transport truck, date and location unknown.

Canadian Ford CMP Field Artillery Tractors pulling artillery pieces, date and location unknown.	Canadian Ford-built CMP early style cab-and-chassis with a British-built personnel hauler after body being used by the United States Army Air Force in England, United Kingdom, 1943-45.	Canadian-built Chevrolet CMP 6x6 gun tractor, circa 1944	Gun crew using the onboard winch in their Canadian Chevrolet CMP 8440CGT Field Artillery Tractor to pull their QF 25-pounder howitzer up a hill, circa 1944

QF 25-pounder howitzer crew readying their gun, circa 1944. Note the gun’s pedestal floor plate, the ammunition packed in the limber, and the CMP Field Artillery Tractor.	Canadian tank crew directs traffic around a disabled M4 Sherman tank while they install a new tread on a narrow road in Normandy, France, 1944. Note CMP ambulance and another CMP truck cab at right.	British soldiers wash a Canadian-built CMP command car and an American-built Jeep in a local stream in Normandy, France, 5 Jul 1944.	Three Canadian Chevrolet CMP 8440CGT Field Artillery Tractors pulling QF 25-pounder howitzers with limbers, probably in the South of France, late 1944.