Pigeon Messages: “Round where I live I know of 4 emplacements of flying torpedos.”

 

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

Catalog numbers: 

WO208/3555  #70, #85, #86, #131, #132

 

Pigeon Messages: “Germany and France kapout. England and America very rich. We are lost.”

 

 

U.S. Army Signal Corps pigeons braving the frigid temperatures for a little frolic in the snow in the Futa Pass during the Italian campaign

 

     This is one of the pictures taken by Gordon Hayes that I sent to Elizabeth Macalaster when she contacted me asking for photo suggestions for her book War Pigeons.  The photo is in his book The Pigeons That Went to War.  Hayes’s photos and papers are archived by the Holt-Atherton Collection at the Pacific Library, Stockton, CA.  Thank you to Nicole Grady, curator, for giving permission to send the photos.

     War Pigeons is a robust, impeccably researched book about pigeons in the U.S. military, 1878-1957. 

 

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

Catalog numbers: WO208/3555  #46, #47, #54, #55, #56, #57, #58 

 

Note:  Some pages are missing from one of the messages.

 

 

Tribute to the Palomacy BirdADay 2021 Calendar

 

     Palomacy is a not for profit pigeon and dove rescue organization located in San Francisco.  To learn more, visit pigeonrescue.org.

     For 2021, Palomacy created their first ever BirdADay Calendar.  It’s a masterpiece.

     What follows are a few pages from this tour de force of stories of courage and teamwork, the courage displayed by the birds as they recover from their injuries and the teamwork displayed by Palomacy volunteers as they strive to place the birds in loving and safe homes.

 

You can use the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen to center each photo.

 

 

The 2022 calendars are coming.  Check out pigeonrescue.org to stay apprised of when they will be available.

Pigeon Messages From Behind Enemy Lines

 

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Catalog numbers: 

WO208/3555  #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45 

 

 

 

 

 

Pigeon Messages From Behind Enemy Lines

 

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Catalog numbers: 

WO208/3555  #24, #26, #27, #28, #32, #33, #39