HOMING PIGEONS
SERVING IN ROYAL AIR FORCE CARRYING VITAL MESSAGES. APPEAL TO SPORTING GUNMEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. April 1. Pointing cut that the lives of crews of aircraft forced down at sea might depend on a homing pigeon, the Royal Air Force has appealed to sporting gunmen to exercise greater care, as many hundreds of homers are shot down weekly during the wood-pigeon shooting season. The Royal Air Force is using half a million homing pigeons and two thousand are on duty daily with the Coastal Command, carrying messages when circumstances demand that the radio shall be silent. One pigeon, released from a plane on the Scandinavian coast, reached its base in. three days, after crossing the North Sea in face of a roaring gale. Another pigeon struggled back wounded in the head and wing and died soon after a message had been removed from its leg.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 6
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