Of the prisoners of war they captured, one had a very special mission -- and weighed less than a pound. That POW was a homing pigeon, who U.S. soldiers named Kaiser after Kaiser Wilhelm II ...

When they’re used to carry war messages, they’re called war pigeons. When they race, they’re called racing pigeons, and so on. When you hear the term ‘carrier pigeon’, it can be ...

The company comprised 9 offices and 324 soldiers and provided a pigeon group to each corps and division. By the end of the war the Signal Corps had sent more than 15,000 trained pigeons to the AEF.

Warring armies have relied on homing pigeons as messengers since ancient times, but the birds came into their own as espionage assets in World War II. At the beginning of the war, British ...

Pigeons have an internal navigational mechanism—known as "homing"—that allows them to always find their way back home. This skill made the bird indispensable in war. They were even used as ...

“To honor the important role homing pigeons played in carrying messages during the war, our children will be writing messages or drawing pictures on discs the size of a postage stamp that go on ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The ...

More than 1,000 pigeons from across the West of England are being prepared to play their part in the VE Day celebrations. The Paulton Homing Society in Somerset is among many groups across the UK ...

Carrier pigeons are one of the unsung heroes of the First World War. Their role in delivering messages to the frontline was crucial even though wired communication was in wide use by that time.