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Carrier Pigeons in WW1

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Dennis Santaniello
Dec 10, 2025
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In the chaos of World War I, when wires snapped and radios failed, soldiers turned to the one messenger that kept showing up: carrier pigeons.

Artillery could tear the ground apart, but those birds had a way of finding home when nothing else worked.

Let’s take a Quick Dive into Carrier Pigeons in WW1.


Telephones could not always survive heavy artillery b…

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