Hero Pigeons Predecessors on Auction Block
Lovell was approached by British intelligence services in 1939 to provide birds for covert operations. The avian unit
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Pigeons' homing instinct makes them excellent messengers
chan luu. More than 200,000 served with British forces during the war. Thousands were placed in containers fitted with parachutes and dropped by British bombers behind enemy lines
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Other pigeons worked as double agents, fitted with tags identical to those worn by Nazi-owned pigeons in the hope they would be given coded messages before returning to British code-breaking headquarters in Bletchley Park, near London
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"When it came to the D-Day landings, a lot of soldiers were sent off with a pigeon, which they kept under their coats, because there was complete radio silence," Bonhams spokesperson Charlotte Wood said Friday.
Those that did survive brought back intelligence about German gun positions on the beaches of Normandy, France.
Thirty-two pigeons were awarded the Dickin medal
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The sale also includes a silver candlestick inscribed to Jet
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pandora jewelry.
Bonhams said the auction features "a wide range of typical accessories for a gentleman's library," including furniture, bronzes
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Other items set to go under the hammer: a tiger skin rug with mounted head; a Boy Scout hat once owned by the movement's founder, Robert Baden-Powell
hermes belt; a pair of glass cucumber straighteners and a lock of hair belonging to Catherine Parr
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