1944 pigeon delivers message too secret to be relayed by phone

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Catalog numbers AIR2/4129  #163, #164

This is a log and a letter created after a pigeon delivered a message on January 13, 1944.  The message began with “Good landing” and continued in another language.  Instructions were given to deliver the message under secret cover, instead of reading it over the phone.