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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: HOW A HOMING PIGEON SAVED THE LOST BATTALION IN WORLD WAR I (DUSTY SHELVES)
Description: Pigeons were treated with very high regard in the military ... much like working dogs are today
Technological innovation has always been central to warfighting, and the advances made over the 20th century were especially important. During the First World War, battlefield communications were limited, and armies employed means--old and new--to communicate. They used old technologies such as semaphores and telegraphs as well as new ones such as telephones and signal lights. But they also relied on animal power, including messenger dogs and homing pigeons to transmit critical information.
One such pigeon was responsible for delivering the message that saved the "...