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Post by jms on Sept 10, 2021 13:49:48 GMT -5
 Algerian War 1957, René Mayen of 28e Train in Oran on a Harley Davidson WLA with two more behind him, He acted as a dispatch rider and sometimes as an outsider for officers. He wears the TTA 47 jacket and trousers, TTA 51 helmet, TTA gaiters, Mle 52 boots and a MAT 49 smg etc. |
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Post by craigtx on Sept 10, 2021 17:54:34 GMT -5
Very cool! Good find!
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Post by jms on Sept 10, 2021 19:23:36 GMT -5
WLAs were produced in large numbers after Pearl Harbor.
(They were a modification of an existing civilian motorcycle with a 45" motor.}
Wiki says 90,000+ were made during the war years. There were enough spare parts made to build maybe as many more. There were several variants. A lot of WLAs went in the Lend-Lease program, the majority to Russia. Production stopped after WW2 but took off again during Korea. My father rode the civilian version when he was in the army in WW2 because he couldn't afford a car.
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Algerian War 1957, René Mayen of 28e Train in Oran on a Harley Davidson WLA with two more behind him, He acted as a dispatch rider and sometimes as an outsider for officers. He wears the TTA 47 jacket and trousers, TTA 51 helmet, TTA gaiters, Mle 52 boots and a MAT 49 smg etc.
