Talk:Source Columba

A fact from Source Columba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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Knowledge

Altough the use of pigeons maybe came officailly public in 2007, it was well known before, maybe by people's experiences. I read about this some years ago in a National Geographic magazine. It should also be noted that Nazi trained hawks by falconeers to get the pigeons down. Also to be noted as I heard Blenhim's on photo reconassiance used homing pigeons to send details about what they had intercepted. The airforce also used to have a pigeon loft to train these pigeons. Malteseman1983 19:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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instructions in flemish and dutch ?

flemish and dutch are the same language.
just slightly different pronunchiation(sp?) and accent.
written it stays the same. so flemish is really redundant.

Well, the source says: "...detailed instructions in French, Flemish or Dutch on how to fill in a report", so we have to go with that. Sandstein 07:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]