Pigeon Messages from Behind Enemy Lines, 1941

 

(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, Kew, UK

Catalog numbers: 

WO208/3560 #107, #108, #111, #112, #113, #114

 

You can use the scroll bar at the bottom to bring the last two pages onto the screen.

 

 

Correspondence regarding use of pigeons in North Africa, 1943

 

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Catalog numbers:  WO204/3930  #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24

 

 

Ike commands expanded use of pigeons in North Africa, August 1943 and BirdADay Desk Calendar to benefit pigeon and dove rescue

 

 

Nimbus, one of the pigeons rescued by Palomacy

 

This year, Palomacy has created its first ever BirdADay Desk Calendar. 

 

 

 

 

For more info you can use this link:

 

https://www.pigeonrescue.org/

 

Palomacy (a Community Initiatives project) is a volunteer-powered, donation-funded, foster-based rescue located in the San Francisco Bay Area saving the lives of domestic (unreleasable) pigeons and doves. We provide vet care, foster homes and adoptions. Since 2007, Palomacy has placed more than 1,400 birds and helped countless others through coaching, education and referral. While our organization hatched as a local effort to help pigeons and doves in the San Francisco Bay Area, the need for what we do is unlimited. As perhaps the only organization in the world completely dedicated to rescuing, rehabbing and rehoming the lost, injured, or displaced pigeon and dove survivors of exploitative businesses, hobbies and sports, we are helping birds from all across the globe through our Palomacy Help Group.

 

 

(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, Kew, UK

Catalog numbers:  WO204/3930  #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #16, #17

 

The command from Eisenhower is the fourth page.

 

 

 

 

Photo from Palomacy article on how to build an aviary for rescued birds

Planning 5000 pigeons for Husky, May 1943

 

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Catalog numbers:  WO204/3930  #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7