WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Secret Message
- Martin told the BBC that he began “pulling it down, pulling it down…then the pigeon bones began appearing one by one by one. Down came the leg with the red capsule on ...
Skeleton
- It is thought the pigeon - carrying top secret war information back home to the UK from Nazi Germany - may have stopped on the chimney and become overcome with fumes.
- A retired probation officer in England cleaning out his chimney recently was startled to sweep up a 70-year-old secret amid the soot: the skeleton of a World War II carrier pigeon with ...
- And there, sadly, he fell off his perch. Perhaps overcome by fumes from the fire below, he died – with a vital coded message in a tiny capsule still strapped to his ...
- A British carrier pigeon was en route to deliver a coded message during World War II when it apparently fell down a chimney. The current owner of the chimney, David Martin of ...
- The remains of a WWII carrier pigeon with a coded message attached to it’s leg has been found inside the chimney of a house in England. The remains of a homing pigeon ...
- Instead of being vital intelligence extracted from the encrypted hard drive of a sophisticated spy gadget it was found up a chimney attached to the leg of a very dead Special Operations ...
Recently
- Here at Mikogo, we’re always on the lookout for new and innovative ways of communication. While we still think our way is the best way, it recently occurred to us that, like ...
- The British Military Still Uses Carrier Pigeons. Not really. But the skeletal remains of a WWII carrier pigeon were recently found in a chimney, with a coded message still attached to its ...
- A quarter of a million pigeons were used on on active service during the War, flying messages in little canisters strapped to their legs across enemy lines.
- Finally, under a peace plan brokered by Britain, the former colonial power, the country’s seven-year guerrilla war was to end, paving the way for white-ruled Rhodesia to become independent as majority-ruled Zimbabwe.