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Show Preserve Famous Pigeon Washington. A request to the War department from Eoston that the carrier car-rier pigeon, "Cher Ami," which was the only means of communication with the "lost battalion" of the Seventy-seventh Seventy-seventh division for four days in 191S, he exhibited in the Massachusetts capital, cap-ital, brought a reply that the bird was now among the stuffed trophies on display dis-play by the Smithsonian institution. "Cher Ami" lost an eye and a leg i while carrying messages which result ed iu reiliof reaching the "lost hat talion," commanded by the late MaJ. Charles W. Whittlesey. The bird brought back to the division loft a clear message from Whittlesey which enabled his battalion to be found nnd rescued after it had been surrounded by Germans. |