Picture No | 11066081 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | French Front messenger-pigeon service 1917 |
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Special mobil messenger-pigeon service 'lofts' built on a motor-vehicle chassis were used in the Western Front during World War One. Also messenger-pigeons were found to be very useful on the Vosges Front, for despatch carrying between posts and station in rear of the trenches among the wooded hills.
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Source | Photograph by French Official Photograph in 'The Illustrated War News', 19 September 1917, part 67, page 33 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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