I'm currently reading " The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman , on page 238 she says a pigeon called GI Joe saved a British Brigade from...
[ATTACH] 67835 Major Benjamin Brian HOSFORD Royal Army Medical Corps 6th June 1904 Islington, London - 8th July 1989 Tunbridge Wells, Kent aged...
Army Number: 1470817 Rank: Serjeant Name: David Durrans FIRTH, MM, MiD Unit: Royal Corps of Signals London Gazette : 22 March 1945...
My brother sent me a link to this review of Secret Pigeon Service in the London Review of Books. It really seems to function as a (pretty lengthy,...
I am reading from TNA AIR2/5041 #156, #157, and #160 which are about use of pigeons for Op OVERLORD. What were tasks A, B, and C? Thank you.
I am reading one of the war diaries for 3 field force from TNA. What was 3 Field Force? Where were they stationed? What were their military...
I am reading copies of AIR2/4129 from TNA. This came up in a search for SAS pigeons. This series of documents contain requistion forms for...
(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, UK Attached thumbnails below are catalog numbers WO208/3556...
(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, UK Catalog numbers WO208/3562 #015, #016 are thumbnails below....
D-Day—number of pigeons dropped to gather intelligence before D-Day, May 1944 (c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National...
I posted documents from The National Archives, London which is correspondence among Flight Lieutenant R. M. Walker of the British War Office,...
I posted a telegraph from the Berlin telegraph service which refers to the bombardment of Normandy with leaflets and with pigeons as "terrible."...
In August I posted “The Brave Message Writers of Occupied Europe-WW2.” It includes 28 documents from the The National Archives, London, created...
Hello I am looking for information about this birdy. I know that it flew from Normandy in the Autumn of 1943, but to where and whom I have no...
For a few years now a Carlisle man as been trying to raise cash for a memorial to be erected in Carlisle to be dedicated to all the animals and...
I have just been given some news from a friend in the know about this secret message and can provide the link below to the real answer to this...
I am reading my latest library book, A crowd is not company by Robert Kee. It describes how he was shot down on a mine laying mission and taken...
From The War Illustrated, Nov 15, 1940: [ATTACH]
On the former island in south-west part of Holland where I live lies close to the sea the village Ouddorp. West of that village is a rugged dune...
Whilst looking for infomation on WW2 Related VC's I came across the animals VC. Dickin Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia World War II...
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