Signal Pigeon Company Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signal Pigeon Company Handbook write by United States War Department. This book was released on 2017-05. Signal Pigeon Company Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This special re-print edition of the United States War Department's book "Signal Pieon Manual" provides information on the use of Homing Pigeons as messengers during the Second World War. Written in 1944, this manual was issued to members of the U.S. Signal Pigeon Corps. The United States Army Pigeon Service (a.k.a. Signal Pigeon Corps) was a unit of the United States Army during World War I and World War II. Their assignment was the training and usage of homing pigeons for communication and reconnaissance purposes. During World War II, the force consisted of 3,150 soldiers and 54,000 war pigeons, which were considered an undetectable method of communication. Over 90% of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received. This reprinted text is fascimile of the manual issued during the last years of World War Two to enlisted men in the Signal Pigeon Corps on how to care for and utilize homing pigeons as millitary messengers. A fascinating read. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.
War Pigeons
War Pigeons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Pigeons write by Elizabeth G. Macalaster. This book was released on 2020-10-08. War Pigeons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for racing in the early 1800s, homing pigeons were later trained by pigeoneers to fly up to 60 mph for hundreds of miles, and served the United States for almost 75 years, through four wars on four continents. Barely weighing a pound, these extraordinary birds carried messages in and out of gas, smoke, exploding bombs and gunfire. They flew through jungles, deserts and mountains, not faltering even when faced with large expanses of ocean to cross. Sometimes they arrived nearly dead from wounds or exhaustion, refusing to give up until they reached their objective. This book is the first complete account of the remarkable service that homing pigeons provided for the American armed forces, from its fledgling beginnings after the Civil War to the birds' invaluable role in communications in every branch of the U.S. military through both World Wars and beyond. Personal narratives, primary sources and news articles tell the story of the pigeons' recruitment and training in the U.S., their deployment abroad and use on the home front.
Technical Manual
Technical Manual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technical Manual write by United States. War Department. This book was released on . Technical Manual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Handbook on German Military Forces
Handbook on German Military Forces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on German Military Forces write by United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division. This book was released on 1943. Handbook on German Military Forces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Handbook on German Military Forces
Handbook on German Military Forces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on German Military Forces write by . This book was released on 1941. Handbook on German Military Forces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
