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Pigeon As Postman

Rats of the air? No! Heroes of the war!

Non-Fiction 1917 1 mins Silent

Overview

"Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky," as Charlemagne probably never said (the quote seems to be an invention of the writers of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). Even so, the 'Father of Europe' might have admired the imaginative employment of the natural world by the Allied forces during WWI. This elegantly-made and uplifting Topical Budget newsreel item celebrates the humble pigeon's important strategic role in ferrying messages across the battlefields.