Thursday, December 2, 2021

A History of the 280th Signal Pigeon Company-All chapters


Excerpt from Chapter VII:

“The pigeons carrying messages were released at various altitudes and all birds made excellent time from the aircraft to the loft.”



     This document is used by permission of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections Department, University of the Pacific Library, Stockton, California

 

     Thank you to Nicole Mountjoy for scanning these papers from the Gordon H. Hayes Collection.  Hayes served as a pigeoneer in North Africa and Italy.  He is the author of The Pigeons That Went To War.













































































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