Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Honoring a veteran and a pigeon historian, Frank Quatrochi


Frank Quatrochi served as a pigeoneer during the Korean War.  He donated this sketch of Kaiser, which he acquired while at Fort Monmouth, as well as the photos and documents from his personal collection. You can use the scroll bar at the bottom to scroll left-right and bring the entire photo or doc onto the screen.  To hear an interview with Frank, you can go to soundcloud.com and enter Frank Quatrochi, Korean War pigeoneer in the search box in the center top of the page or use this link https://soundcloud.com/search?q=frank%20quatrocchi%2C%20korean%20war%20pigeoneer


Korea mobile pigeon loft

 
Cpl. Thomas with pigeons

 
Cpl.Quatrochi in his pigeon loft

 
Pigeon Flight Records






Robin Hutton published War Animals in 2018.  She writes, “In 1941, Major Otto Meyer assumed command of the Signal Pigeon Corps.  Meyer ran the worldwide pigeon breeding and training program and supervised the writing of the pigeon bible---Army Technical Manual No.  11-410, The Homing Pigeon, as well as Field Manual 11-80, Pigeons for Combat Use.” 
Below is Cpl. Quatrochi’s letter to Otto Meyer.



Two photos of Tokyo loft




Cpl. Quatrochi next to sign outside of Tokyo loft

 
Cpl. Thomas with pigeon


Korea mobile pigeon loft



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