Saturday, July 14, 2018

Pigeons in Italy: 21 HQ Section Carrier Pigeon Reports Sept-Dec 1944



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Catalog numbers:  WO170/2106  #002, #030, #031, #033, #040





Wednesday, November 22, 2017

2 way communication between lofts, November 1944


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Catalog numbers:  WO170/2106  #004, #035, #036, #037





Thursday, November 16, 2017

Large number of pigeons needed to keep pace with advance of 8th Army, 1944








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Catalog numbers:  WO170/2106  #004, #023, #024, #026, #027





Monday, October 30, 2017

Large number of pigeons requested to be trained, July 1944


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Catalog numbers:  #004, #019, #020, #021, #022





Saturday, October 28, 2017

Special Force No. 1 use of pigeons, June 1944


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Catalog numbers:  WO170/2106  #004, #016, #017






Wednesday, October 18, 2017

MIddle Eastern Pigeon Service in Palestine, Cyprus, and Iraq, 1942



Pigeon in Rome by D. Truong

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Catalog number:  AIR23/1003  #00108



Sunday, October 8, 2017

21 HQ Carrier Pigeon Service: number of messages delivered and note on pigeons flying 200 miles, 1944


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Catalog numbers:  WO170/2106  #004, #008, #009, #010