"D. Patterson" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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The UK could make all it wanted.


It could not make all it wanted during WWII.



Britain was pretty much self sufficient with regard to
infantry weapons[...]

After the Fall of France and the evacuation of the BEF, Britain did not
have
enough infantry weapons to arm the British Army in the Home Islands.
Emergency shipments of WWI era Enfield pattern rifles manufactured in the
United States, American Thompson sub-machine guns, and a wild assortment
of
sportman's rifles and shotguns had to be rushed to Britian to rearm the
British armed forces.


Actually most of those went to home guard units. The only
weapons that ended up in the regular units was the Thompson

and artillery but relied heavily on
US supplied tanks , trucks and armoured cars.

The air force relied totally on US production for its
transport aircraft , a large percentage of its long range
maritime patrol aircraft and the RN was reliant on US
produced fighters on its carrier force

Also most of the British aircraft carriers were American built light
carriers and escort carriers.


True for the CVE's but not the light fleet carriers which were British
designed and built

Keith