Show pigeons being 0 trained in U S as commandos several hundred pigeons now eing trained as carriers of messages for the united states forces ire undergoing a strenuous com nando course to get them accustomed to the lack out the birds which nor nally roost at night are sent out n the darkness to make two way lights they are also trained to return to roosts boosts mounted on trail TS rs which sometimes remain only i 1 few days at one station to get them ready for battle conditions ons aeroplanes aero planes are used to live at them and they fly amid exploding firecrackers they are given iven medical attention and like the troops they get leave in the RAF there are instances an record in this war of these couriers ouri zouri ers flying through battles to jeliver messages despite a bullet round bound in the breast or the loss of a leg |