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- Title
Winged War Heroes Remembered.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the valuable services that a pigeon named Cher Ami has performed during the World War I. The article informed how it carried vital information to an American battalion in that war, in a particular day when the battalion advanced too far ahead of its lines to find themselves surrounded by enemies, and neither humans nor birds could get through heavy fire to report the battalion's location to army headquarters. The bird died soon after reaching the base from a chest wound received in the same flight. It is informed that Cher Ami's stuffed body is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.
- Subjects
PIGEONS; PIGEON post; LETTER services; UNITED States involvement in World War I; BIRD behavior; UNITED States. Army; WAR correspondents; NATIONAL Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Publication
BioScience, 1981, Vol 31, Issue 10, p713
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioscience/31.10.713