Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Documents from WW2 reveal German Secret Service use of pigeons



The images of documents are stored at The National Archives, London, UK.

Catalog numbers WO208/3556 #17, #18, #19
  
(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, UK

Images exceed the frame so they will be easy to read.

This document is from the British War Office Columba 1 2 Information Statistics file. 

Some of the points:

German saboteurs carried 6 pigeons,

The Germans organized pigeon lofts in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria,

Vienna had a pigeon HQ to which pigeons returned with their messages.






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