WWII Carrier Pigen found in chimmney in the UK

[Rule3]

The skeleton of the pigeon was found in a chimney and still has the coded secret message strapped to the bone of it's leg. This is just too cool. Right around D Day.

Read the article and wait for the ad to finish and there is a short video.

WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Secret Message - ABC News

 

[Onomea]

Yeah, I saw that in the NYT. Very cool indeed! I had not realized how pervasive carrier pigeons were in WWII. WWI, sure, but WWII was a surprise to me.

 

[geoff40]

I hope we see some followup to this soon.

Many years ago, my family kind of adopted an older man, retired, who became a kind of grandfather sort to several of my nieces and nephews. He was a regular at family dinners, holidays, and more. In WW2, he was enlisted and worked in the secret code offices of the Brit's; needless to say when I saw this story of the pigeon I immediately thought of this man, who I am pretty sure would have been the sort of person they now need to find. It's about 20 years too late now.

 

[goldenlight]

Well, it sure beats finding unexploded Nazi ordinance in your chimney!

A quarter million pigeons! I had no idea so many were used, given how common radio was.

I guess getting messages from occupied France makes sense, of course.