The U.S. Army’s Signal Corps Pigeon program, which was headquartered at Fort Monmouth, NJ from 1919 until its discontinuation in 1957, remains one of the most requested topics from the CECOM ...

The Army’s pigeon program, which began in 1917 under the orders of General John Pershing, was headquartered at Fort Monmouth under the Signal Corps from 1919 until its discontinuation in 1957 ...

A carrier pigeon that saved soldiers in WWI can now be found at the Pentagon. In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon.

The U.S. Army Signal Corps' pigeon service debuted in France in 1918. By the time the Meuse-Argonne Offensive began in September of that year, U.S. forces were using nearly 450 U.S. pigeons.

The pigeon-guided missile was apparently too far-fetched of an idea even for the Army. “Further prosecution of this project would seriously delay others which in the minds of the Division would ...

During World War I, more than 100,000 pigeons flew missions as part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France. One famous pigeon, Cher Ami, was used to delivered 12 messages in Verdun, France during ...

A claim shared to social media purported to tell the tale of a heroic carrier pigeon named Cher Ami, a member of the U.S. Army Pigeon Service who served in World War I. According to the claim ...

A British army bus-mounted mobile pigeon loft on active service during the First World War. Public Domain Yet closing the pigeon gap proved to be no simple matter. The little attention devoted to ...