Photo of pigeon in Rome by D. Truong
(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, UK
WO208/3556 #34
WO208/3562 #06
The message was one delivered as part of Operation Columba. Residents of occupied France, Holland, and Belgium sent messages with intelligence about the Germans to Britain with pigeons they found. The pigeons had been dropped by British aircraft in small boxes attached to small parachutes in country areas. People wouldn’t retrieve pigeons in more populated areas because sending a message with a pigeon under the German occupation was a crime punishable by death.
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