LIBERATION OF EUROPE : PIGEON BRINGS FIRST INVASION NEWS. - PIGEON BRINGS FIRST INVASION NEWSGustave, an RAF Coastal Command carrier pigeon, brought the first War Correspondent's despatch back to England from the Allied Incasion forces off the enemy coast, and the bird was released at 8:30 in the morning. Flying against a 50 miles an hour head wind, the pigeon landed in its loft on a south coast Coastal Command Station at 1:46 in the afternoon. The message was immediately telephoned to London for publication. It read:"We are just twenty miles or so off the beaches. First assault troops landed
LIBERATION OF EUROPE : PIGEON BRINGS FIRST INVASION NEWS. - PIGEON BRINGS FIRST INVASION NEWSGustave, an RAF Coastal Command carrier pigeon, brought the first War Correspondent's despatch back to England from the Allied Incasion forces off the enemy coast, and the bird was released at 8:30 in the morning. Flying against a 50 miles an hour head wind, the pigeon landed in its loft on a south coast Coastal Command Station at 1:46 in the afternoon. The message was immediately telephoned to London for publication. It read:"We are just twenty miles or so off the beaches. First assault troops landed 0750. Signal says no interference from enemy gunfire on beach. Passage uneventful. Steaming steadily on. Formations Lightnings, Typhoons, Fortresses crossing since 0545. No enemy aircraft seen."Gustave in safe hands after his adventurous flight. 1944 ,
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