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Show Carrier Pigeon Is Used To Send Battle Story ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, N. AFRICA. For the first time in the North African campaign a carrier pigeon has been used to transmit a dispatch from the front lines. Phil Ault, United Press correspondent, corre-spondent, who was an eye-witness to the capture of the Axis base at Gafsa, wrote a dispatch and sent it by pigeon to a forward teleprinter base which relayed it to Allied headquarters. head-quarters. It took the pigeon 50 minutes to make the trip. |