U.S. ARMY MESSENGERS
HOMING PIGEONS TRAINED (9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Several hundred homing pigeons are being trained in Britain as messengers for the United States Army on various Allied war fronts. The birds are being taught to fly in the dark and make two-way flights. A Royal Air Force record shows that of 320 messages sent from aircraft by its pigeons 307 were; delivered.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 6
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65U.S. ARMY MESSENGERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 6
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