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Default Carrier pigeon’s secret WWI message found over a century later

Carrier pigeon’s secret WWI message found over a century later

Nov 9, 2020

Carrier pigeons boasted a 95% success rate of delivery across Europe during the First World War, according to the US Army’s Signal Corps.

Luckily for historians, one of those occasionally undelivered messages ended up in a field in eastern France, where a retired couple discovered it more than 100 later.

Spotted while the pair were on a walk through a field in the Alsace region, whose border is hugged by Germany, the tiny aluminum capsule, hardly bigger than a thimble, has been called a “super rare” finding.

Inside the capsule, a “kind of tracing paper” bore a message in an unusual sort of German Gothic script, according to Dominique Jardy, curator of the Linge Memorial Museum in Orbey, who turned to a language expert to analyze the note. Jardy told Le Parisien that the note is dated 1910 or 1916. The year is ambiguous because of illegibility and historical context. (World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918.)

https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/carrie...century-later/
 
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