PIGEONS FOR ARMY
London, Oct. 18. Several hundred homing pigeons are being trained in Britain as messengers for the United Stales Army on various Allied war fronts. The birds are being taught to fly in the dark and to make two-way flights. A Royal Air Force record shows that, of 320 messages sent from an aircraft by its pigeons, 307 were delivered.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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