Photo of pigeon in Rome by D. Truong
(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The
National Archives, London, UK
WO208/3556 #34
WO208/3562 #06
The message was one delivered
as part of Operation Columba. Residents
of occupied France, Holland, and Belgium sent messages with intelligence about
the Germans to Britain with pigeons they found.
The pigeons had been dropped by British aircraft in small boxes attached
to small parachutes in country areas.
People wouldn’t retrieve pigeons in more populated areas because sending
a message with a pigeon under the German occupation was a crime punishable by
death.
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