Sgt. Swanker of the Pigeon Section, Signal Corps, holds the first pigeons used to carry messages during an attack from the front line to Hdqrs in Cornieville, France on May 2, 1918. This photograph was taken by Private Painter and was censored and released by the Censor on June 10, 1918.

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