Hi guys,

I am planning a diorama including Canadian soldiers with bicycles in northwest Europe. I know they landed with the bikes on D-Day, but how long after are they known to have been in use? Did they last into Holland?

Thanks,

Daniel

motor or pusH?"

Push, probably should have included that.

A book Bicycle in Wartime - An illistrated History is available through Amazon.

This Website below has a review of the book

[url=[/url] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200209/ai_n9085658

The site below has a photo of a landing craft loaded with bicycles , a book Bicycles in War , and A youtube "video" that has several photos of British bicycle troops in Europe.

http://www.combatreform.com/atb.htm

Many of the vets I have talked to from the SD&G's (9th Brigade) who went ashore on that day
tell me they through all their bikes into a pile just off the beach. They could'nt believe the joy
on so many French childrens faces at the fact they were "throwing" the bikes away. Many of
these children never had bikes before that day.

Art