List of military equipment of the Canadian Army during the Second World War
At the beginning of the Second World War, Canada did not have an extensive manufacturing industry besides car manufacturing. Therefore, most of Canadian weapons and equipment during the war were imported from either Britain or the US. Small. Grenades and grenade launchers. This list is grossly incomplete, listing a small fraction of approximately 30 grenade varieties used by Canadians during World War II. Flamethrowers. Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 "Ack-Pack" Artillery. Heavy mortars & rocket launchers. Land Mattress C-21 UCM - Bangalore torpedo (not a grenade or anti-tank ) Vehicles. Canada produced a wide variety of combat vehicles during World War II domestically, but all primary fighting vehicles were imported because of manufacturing quality concerns. Tankettes. Carden Loyd Mk IV tankette - not used in combat Self-propelled guns. Other. M3 75mm Gun Motor Carriage - M3 Half-track equipped with the M1A1 75 mm gun Aircraft. Although the Canadian government purchased and built thousands of military aircraft for use by the RCAF Home War Establishment (RCAF Eastern Air Command and RCAF Western Air Command) and the Canadian-based units of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, under the provisions  of the plan Canada was to provide the training aircraft and facilities and a very large number of Canadian airmen would be committed to go overseas to fight in Article XV squadrons formed in the Great Britain and known as 400 series squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Forty-four of these squadrons were formed and most under this agreement were equipped by the British largely from their stocks and that is why many of the types of aircraft flown in combat in great numbers (such as the North American Mustang, Boulton Paul Defiant, Bristol Beaufighter, hundreds of Supermarine  Spitfires of various marks, British built Avro Lancasters, Vickers Wellington, Hawker Typhoon, Short Sunderland, etc.) by most of the RCAF squadrons engaged in the fighting are missing from the following list altogether (or the quantities actually used by the RCAF overseas are not included in the numbers given below).