Sorry it took so long to reply. I was having some serious trouble with my
PC (You don't want to know the details, but now it works again, with a few
new bad sectors and the sound board removed)
All the books on your list, except the books on German machinery and
"The Motorcycles Marines" are on my list also.
Lately I found some books at www.amazon.com.
For example D. Sarafan's "The Liberators. Military Harley-Davidson
Motorcycles Circa 1939-1952" and Terence Wise "American military
camouflage and markings, 1939-1945". These were out-of-print, but
they were still able to find a copy, one even signed by David Sarafan
himself!
At amazon I also found the following titles after searching for "military
motorcycle" I haven't seen these books though. (by the way I don't
own any amazon stock!)
German Military Motorcycles : In the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht 1934-1945
(Schiffer Military History)
by Horst Hinrichsen
Published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: February 1997
ISBN: 0764301926
Military Motorcycles of World War 2
Published by Motorbooks International
Publication date: March 1986
ISBN: 0850456185
Bmw Motorcycles in World War II : R12/R75
by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
Published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: July 1991
ISBN: 0887403069
German motorcycles of World War II
by Tony L. Oliver
Published by Almark ; distributed by Squadron/Signal Publications
ISBN: 0855242973
For the restoration of my HD WLA I found a lot of detailed information in
the form of factory pictures in
"Inside Harley-Davidson, An engineering history of the motor company
from F-heads to Knuckleheads 1903 - 1945", by Jerry Hatfield.
ISBN: 0 87938 388 7
And action pictures in
"Harley-Davidson 45s, Workhorse and Warhorse", by John Carrol and
Garry Stuart.
ISBN: 1 85532 444 X
Books on HD contain sometimes one or two WWII action pictures.
Further I regularly find photos in magazines and also on the internet. E.g.
http://gopher.nara.gov:70/I/inform/dc/audvis/still/aframww2/afri002.jpg
(A rare photo, with some off topic social implications by the way)
http://www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com/motorcyle.html
And several images at
http://image.vtls.com/signal.corps/
(image no. 42, 65, 67 and 78)
Amazing document finds on the internet include:
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/refBibs/vehicle/mcycle2.htm
This official us-army document proves that two thirds of the 100,000
motorcycles procured by the us government were lend leased to
allies. This means only about 35.000 motorcycles were used by
the us-army (compare with a total of 650,000 jeeps of which
463,000 were used by the us-army).
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/refBibs/vehicle/mcycle.htm
This official document includes a bibliography on motorcycles
I'm always very interested in photo's of military motorcycles in
action. And also especially interested in information on the 65.000 (!)
lend leased american motorcycles of WWII (I've never seen an
action-picture or -story about them!)
Cheers!
PietJan Baarda
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