stackyFACTSWhen your wireless radios are junk and phone lines keep getting blown up, you rely on the birds. Carrier pigeons were so crucial for delivering frontline coordinates that the British enacted the Defence of the Realm Act, making it a literal crime punishable by six months in prison to shoot, kill, or even slightly annoy a homing pigeon.
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