Show FEATHERED SOLDIERS PLAYED HEROIC PARTS IN V S WARS poets and writers have celebrated in song and story the deeds of horses and dogs on the battlefield but who has yet risen to tell of the deeds of some of the feathered soldiers who played heroic parts in americas wars there was the plattsburgh Platts burgh gamecock that crowed defiance at the british in the war of 1812 there was old abe the eagle mascot of a wisconsin regiment in the civil war and there were the homing pigeons that helped save the lost bataillon Batal llon in the world war do you know the story of each of these if not be interested in the illustrated feature article war birds by ehno scott watson which appears in this issue of the times independent |