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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]
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I'd love to know how Le Cirq took out a submarine!
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Amazing! I bet a bunch of us would like to read the final story
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Le Cirq pooped on the periscope.
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Le Cirq pooped on the periscope.
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Quote from: Dumpsterkitty on 20-Oct-09, 05:37:47 PM
Quote from: Shaky on 20-Oct-09, 05:33:17 PM
Le Cirq pooped on the periscope.
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