Frank Quatrochi served as a
pigeoneer during the Korean War. He
donated this sketch of Kaiser, which he acquired while at Fort Monmouth, as well as the photos and documents from his personal collection. You can use the scroll bar at the bottom to scroll left-right and bring the entire photo or doc onto the screen. To hear an interview with Frank, you can go
to soundcloud.com and enter Frank Quatrochi, Korean War pigeoneer in the
search box in the center top of the page or use this link https://soundcloud.com/search?q=frank%20quatrocchi%2C%20korean%20war%20pigeoneer
Korea mobile pigeon loft
Cpl. Thomas with pigeons
Cpl.Quatrochi in his pigeon loft
Pigeon Flight Records
Robin Hutton published War Animals in 2018. She writes, “In 1941, Major Otto Meyer
assumed command of the Signal Pigeon Corps.
Meyer ran the worldwide pigeon breeding and training program and
supervised the writing of the pigeon bible---Army Technical Manual No. 11-410, The
Homing Pigeon, as well as Field
Manual 11-80, Pigeons for Combat Use.”
Below is Cpl. Quatrochi’s
letter to Otto Meyer.
Two photos of Tokyo loft
Cpl. Quatrochi next to sign
outside of Tokyo loft
Cpl. Thomas with pigeon
Korea mobile pigeon loft
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