Post war "NATO mutual aid" stenciling

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Not just Europe, and not only post-war. The Canadian Mutual Aid agreements were created under the War Appropriation (United Nations Mutual Aid) Act of 1943, a wartime measure more or less equivalent to the US Act that created the US Lend-Lease programme.

But these ones must have been a supplied postwar as the stencils say:

“NORTH ATLANTIC
TREATY ORGANIZATION
MUTUAL AID”

Also read Canadian Mutual Aid Programme: WW2 equipment supplied to NATO Allies

[Mike Cecil]

Agreed: these are post-war markings. I was referring to Grant's reference to the programme, not that particular set of markings.

My point was that the generosity of our Canadian friends, through Canadian Mutual Aid, commenced during the war, ie was initially a wartime measure that continued into the post-war period, modified along the way as circumstances changed.

Mike

[David Dunlop]

Many years back, I recall seeing a photo of a line of CMP's with similar stencils on the doors indicating they were part of an aid program for Belgium, and in the 1980's I think there were a number of CMP's found sitting in storage somewhere in France with some form of aid markings on them as well.

David