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Oldest Flying Corps - Army Pigeons 1914-1918
Description
Oldest flying corps - army pigeons. (Carrier pigeons used as messengers in World War One.)
Location of events unknown.
CU man holding tiny cylindrical metal object - must be message container. Man fastening it onto pigeon's leg. Pigeons flying out door of roost or coop. Shot of pigeons...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Cheri
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 72259
- Sort Number:
- ON 077 C
- Time in/Out:
- 01:20:30:00 / 01:21:36:00
- Canister:
- ON 077 C
- Film ID:
- 1880.24
- Issue Date:
- 1914 - 1918
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