WW2 photo with Guzzis

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Saw this on Facebook and thought it might be of interest here.




The caption reads:
WW2 - Ukraine1941. Column of Bersaglieri Italian motorcyclists in Russia, probably in the suburb of Stalino, today Donetsk. All Moto Guzzi GT 17 , on the first at left there is a Breda Mod. 30. (my colorization)

[LowRyter]

not a good look for Guzzi riders.......

[pebra]

Yes, interesting after all.

Thanks!

[Guzzistajohn]

Naaa, they're just goin' to a new AMA event called a shoot and scoot. It's a flat track/turkey shoot hybrid. 

[janguzzi]

The bike that did not won the war.

[kfz]

The bike that did not won the war.

They were good bikes well liked, example of good Italian equipment.  Too good in fact, never enough of them. 

[chuck peterson]

Original source of “a feather on his cap..” ???

Couldn’t have been much fun to have those on your helmet...

[ozarquebus]

Those poor fellows.

[hzbloke]

There's a cafe in the suburbs of Hobart that's full of interesting motorbikes. This Moto Guzzi apparently belonged to the cafe owner's father and that's a picture of him sitting on it during the war.

[Zoom Zoom]

Thanks Charlie.

John Henry