L’utilizzo dei colombi viaggiatori nella Prima Guerra mondiale

The military use of pigeons dates back to antiquity, and still had great strategic importance during the First World War. Unpublished documents from the Historical Archive of the Italian Army Staff and from the Museum of the Engineers’ Weapon testify to the regular use of these birds and their extraordinary reliability, especially during the battle of Vittorio Veneto, with a precise mapping of the location of the mobile dovecotes and the search for confidential information in occupied territories behind enemy lines.

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