Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Homing Pigeon, Care and Training for Military Purposes, February, 1920
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2430
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
List of War Department Pamphlet on Military Training
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Animal-based Transportation for Emergency Logistics
Author: Eve IversenPublisher:
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
War Pigeons
Author: Elizabeth G. MacalasterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476680809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
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.