Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-06 | Page 1 | Pigeon Battles Italian Blizzard to Deliver 'Nothing to Report'

Pigeon Battles Italian Blizzard To Deliver Nothing to Report LONDON April 6 UP The UP-The The story of the determined homing pigeon that flew for 18 hours through an Italian blizzard to deliver a a. report from a snowbound snowbound snowbound snow snow- bound British infantry division was told at British army headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters Thursday Telephone and radio S S J ff n. n nic tion between the between the stranded division and Its headquarters had broken down so the pigeon was dispatched with a message to the high command When the exhausted bird fluttered fluttered flut nut I down at headquarters 18 hours later a signal corpsman removed the dispatch and read Nothing to report 7 i 1