San Juan Record | 1943-08-12 | Page 6 | Pigeon Chutists

pigeon Chutis ts carrier pigeons employed by U S armed forces are today being lowered from planes in crates suspended by midget sized parachutes if pigeons were released at coq altitude from a plane moving nailes miles per hour without this protection wing feathers would be blown off by the blast of air from the propeller and birds would freeze to death after a carrier has descended several thousand feet in the crate the door of the crate is automatically opened releasing the bird to do its duty