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Title: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: Paul Hamilton on 20-Oct-09, 01:26:49 PM While researching an article on carrier pigeons in WW1 for her magazine, my wife, Mary, came across this remarkable sentence:
"Then there is Le Cirq, the pigeon which captured a German submarine and all its crew, and Babbette, a milk-white pullet, which was camouflaged as a crow, that the German Prince's 'shot-gun squad might not harm her, flew to French headquarters with a message from a secret observer within German lines and enabled Allied guns to stop a surprise German attack on the Meuse." [From The American Legion Weekly, August 29, 1919] Paul Title: Re: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: Dumpsterkitty on 20-Oct-09, 01:32:29 PM I'd love to know how Le Cirq took out a submarine! :sherlock:
Title: Re: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: valhalla on 20-Oct-09, 02:23:19 PM Amazing! I bet a bunch of us would like to read the final story :happy:
Title: Re: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: Shaky on 20-Oct-09, 05:33:17 PM Le Cirq pooped on the periscope.
Title: Re: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: Dumpsterkitty on 20-Oct-09, 05:37:47 PM Le Cirq pooped on the periscope. :hysterical:Title: Re: Camouflaged as a crow Post by: carla on 20-Oct-09, 07:04:25 PM :hysterical:
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