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Paratrooper pigeons in WW2

  • February 20, 2020
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Paratrooper pigeons in WW2

About 250,000 pigeons were employed during the conflict, of which many were parachuted behind enemy lines. They were supposed to go to the combatants of the Resistance in France, so that they could send them back with information. Only 1,842 pigeons came back.

Source: True or False by Andrea Mills, Dorling Kindersley

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