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RESCUE 1944

R.C.A.F. Loft

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Birds Being Prepared For Mission

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Morse Code Operator Aboard Plane

Pigeons Were The Means Of Communication Used When Radios Could Not Get Through Or Circumstances Made Radio Silence Necessary.

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Crew Preparing To Ditch Plane with Pigeons

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Crew Preparing To Release Pigeon

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Pigeon Returning To Home Loft With Message

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Rescue Underway By Air and Sea

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Crew Sends Up Flare

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Crew Being Taken Aboard

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Today when you see Homing Pigeons please remember the service these birds have provided

saving thousands of  lives in two world wars. 

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