Wednesday, December 25, 2019

US Army Signal Pigeon Companies Manuals



Many thanks to Richard Fowler for contributing these links to the manuals.


TM 11—410, THE HOMING PIGEON, 1 January 1945



FM 11-80 Pigeon Signal Company Sept 15, 1944

https://archive.org/details/FM11-8


 

"Pigeon Communication" FM 24-5 Basic Field Manual Signal Communication, Oct. 19, 1942





(1943) Pigeon Training Section, Preventative Veterinary Medicine,      Signal Corps, 88pp
 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924000932164&view=2up&seq=2

 (1940)  TM 11—410, THE HOMING PIGEON, 10 September 1940, 72pp
 https://archive.org/details/TM11-410

  (1936)  TR 1255-1 The Homing Pigeon,  30 October 1936, 33 pp
  https://books.google.com/books?id=-9wsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1

  (1931) Ch 9, Pigeon Loft Management, Signal Corps field manual,  Volume II, Signal Corps Operations, pp134-147
  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b630685&view=2up&seq=146

  (1931) "Pigeons at message centers", Basic Field Manual, Vol IV, Signal Communication, 1931, 12pp chapter
  https://books.google.com/books?id=VVAsbIoCRNgC&pg=PA248&dq=pigeons

  (1923) The pigeoneer. Training Manual No. 32, Students manual for all arms,  15 August 1923, 164pp
  https://books.google.com/books?id=yyhDAAAAYAAJ
  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924000069231&view=2up&seq=6

  (1923) Message Center Specialist. Training Manual No. 24, Students manual for all arms, 28 June 1923, pp 46-64
  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101072897109&view=2up&seq=712

(1920)  Homing Pigeon, Care and Training for Military Purposes, February, 1920, 60 pp
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8UtAAAAIAAJ

This one is a British manual:

 (1919) "Pigeon Service Manual", Air Ministry, June 1919, 17pp
 https://vassallohistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/raf-pigeon-service-manual1.pdf

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