The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages
The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages Unless someone publishes a similar book, The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages will be the first collection of some of the…
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The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages
Unless someone publishes a similar book, The World War II Pigeons and the Secret Columba Messages will be the first collection of some of the Columba messages held at The National Archives, London. The British created Operation Columba to gather intelligence from occupied France, Holland, and Belgium. Residents of occupied Europe wrote the messages and pigeons delivered the messages to Britain.
Those who found the pigeon also found a questionnaire, rice paper, a pencil, and a set of instructions for how to attach the message to the pigeon. From 1941 to 1945, British aircraft dropped approximately 17,000 pigeons in small containers attached to small parachutes. Under the German occupation, sending a message with a pigeon was a crime punishable by death.
This made the messages a unique form of communication, because unlike diaries or letters, the writer had little time to reflect and make
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