Show I Strange as It Seems by John Hix Mix I 0 CAPT f C foR tI Y fX t B NEARLY NR c i 5 1 Z NY II n OrrEN OFEN P P FRoM die J oN Moll US RAUS N J T H RIA A G GER er Ato P N 8 Foor coo rr IG Vf f W M h II I. I r fROM Au L IF oN oNe Or of 1 IR lM lY J I yh ANNUAL l l CAMOUFLAGED PIGEONS Strange as it seems Captain Ray R R. Delhauer has bred 40 special camouflaged pigeons whose gray and mottled wings are arc almost invisible in flight Captain Delhauer's birds are the result of 10 generations of inbreeding inbreeding In Inbreeding in- in breeding starting with two two- famous World war pigeons Spike pigeons Spike and Mocker Spike won fame carrying 52 official messages in 1918 from front line trenches to U U. S. S army headquarters Mocker carried messages mesI messages mes mes- I sages from a mobile tank to headquarters was once hit by shrapnel and blinded in one eye Captain Delhauer plans to offer his birds for forthe forthe forthe the new national defense program |