Volume 18 , Issue 6

1919 Pigeon In War

We found this 1919 news story in The Monroe Journal, Monroe, North Carolina, dated 21 March 1919, Friday, page 1: The Pigeon In War."

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Besieged Paris, as somebody had pointed out, taught Bismarck the value of the homing pigeon in war, when some 800 pigeons were sent in balloons to Tours and provided communication between the two cities. After the peace, Bismarck established pigeon lofts in every fortress and in many of the cities in Germany. Other European nations, although less thoroughly, followed the example, but it was only about a year ago that the United States naval air service instituted 14 lofts in different parts of the country with a total of about 800 pigeons in training for war service.
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