Earlier in this thread, Brian Asbury confirmed the serial number of this truck matched Canadian Production numbers. Others have posted photos of Canadian factory issued data plates for reference.
I wonder if your truck went through a rebuild process somewhere postwar, where the people in charge were completely unaware (or just did not care for some reason) that the truck was Canadian. Maybe they received a batch of US vehicles and this one was in the batch. They simply did up a data plate to show it was American to a avoid a bunch of extra paperwork?
When I was rebuilding a Cab 13 CMP many years ago and it was sitting in my driveway in grey primer paint, I had a 'gentleman' banging on my door one day to yell at me because I was 'restoring a German Army truck'. No way I could convince him it was Canadian! Makes for an interesting world.
David
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