PIGEONS POPULAR
WITH BRITISH AIR CREWS. “Even if they don’t know much about pigeons the majority of crews like to take them with them. In some sort of way they seem to be good company in the aircraft. Great heights don’t appear to affect the pigeons at all; in fact at 22,000 feet when all are wearing oxygen masks they don’t seem the slightest distressed. When released in the air they have to be thrown head downwards, facing the way the aircraft is going, and it gives them a chance to get clear of the slipstream. After circling round and getting their bearings, they go well down and make a bee-line for hom,e from three to four feet over the writer; or hedge-hopping if it’s over land, until they’re a few miles from home, and then they take the .air again and sail in. In courage and endurance the pigeon is second to no beast or bird.’ —“Pigeon Service” by an R.A.F. corporal in the Middle East, in a 8.8. C. news reel. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 4
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