{"id":12711,"date":"2012-11-07T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2012-11-07T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:00:50","slug":"secret-agent-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12711","title":{"rendered":"Secret Agent Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org\/news\/docview.rhtm\/675670\">Mystery Pigeon&#8217;s War Secret<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The remains of a World War Two carrier pigeon which was lost in action 70 years ago while delivering a top secret message over enemy lines has been found in a chimney in Bletchingley, Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The skeleton of the bird has a small red cylinder attached to its foot which contains a mysterious cigarette paper sized coded message. The message is deemed so sensitive, that Codebreakers at GCHQ in Cheltenham are now frantically trying to decipher it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Historians believe the bird was almost certainly dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6 1944, during the D-Day Invasions. Because of Churchill\u2019s radio blackout, homing pigeons were taken on the D-Day invasion and released by Allied Forces to inform military Generals back on English shores how the operation was going.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other carrier pigeon messages, however, Mr Martin\u2019s is written entirely in code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Pigeon&#8217;s War Secret The remains of a World War Two carrier pigeon which was lost in action 70 years ago while delivering a top secret message over enemy lines has been found in a chimney in Bletchingley, Surrey. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}