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This document is from the British War Office Columba 1 2 Information Statistics file.
Some of the points:
German saboteurs carried 6 pigeons,
The Germans organized pigeon lofts in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria,
Vienna had a pigeon HQ to which pigeons returned with their messages.
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