Photo Credit: USAMHI
"Our Flying Couriers": This image shows "Military Homing Pigeons" on display to the public in the United States during World War I. The image is captioned "Our Flying Couriers...these homing pigeons are extensively used to carry messages from the fighting front back to headquarters and may be classed as faithful soldiers of our fighting forces." (WWI Signal Corps Photograph Collection). (WWI Signal Corps Photograph Collection).