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This was done to fool the Axis powers into thinking that our production capability was much larger than reality. For instance...They capture 10 WLA's with serial numbers ranging from 42WLA10890 to 42WLA60900 they would assume that the enemy could produce at least 50,000 Bikes in a single year!

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