CARRIER PIGEONS
USE IN TIME OF WAR. COMPILATION OF REGISTER IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 18. A register of carrier pigeons for use in wartime is being compiled by the Air Ministry. The pigeons would be carried by Royal Air Force machines and would be used to convey messages if the plane’s wireless apparatus were put out of action. Since the war the Royal Air Force has maintained a pigeon service, and, as a result of offers of pigeons from private fanciers, it is expected that about half a million of their birds will be available to play their part in national defence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 7
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105CARRIER PIGEONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 7
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