From the Dec. 22, 2012, New Zealand.
This was a big story back in the fall of 2012 when pigeon remains with a WWII message was found in a chimney in a home under renovation. When the message was examined, it was found to be in code and the British military said that the code was no longer used and its was uncrackable.
However, Gordon Young said it took him 17 minutes ti decipher it using his great uncle's code book from World War I.
The message identified German troop units and Panzer tank positions
It was sent back to Britain during the Battle of Caen after the D-Day landing.
Some 250,000 pigeons, working in pairs, were used during the war.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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