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Show while carrying messages which result ed In rellief reaching the "lost bat tallon," commanded by the late MaJ Charlea W. Whittlesey. The bird brought back to the division loft a clear message from Whittlesey which enabled his battalion to be found and rescued after it hnd been surrounded by Germans. Preserve Famous Pigeon ...j Washington. A' request to the Wtr department from Boston 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 1918, be 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 j |