WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Royal » Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:21 pm

Awesome. Interesting story.

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Pigeon » Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:27 pm

Wondering it they will admit if he did decode it. Not much of a secret if it was an old secret messaging method.

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Royal » Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:24 pm

The "London Blitz" of World War II left more than a million UK residents homeless. Between Oct. 7, 1940 and Oct. 14, 1941, the German army dropped close to 100 metric tons of explosives across Britain -- the majority of them on London.

The Bomb Sight Project highlights every bomb dropped on the city during the raid in a new interactive map.

The project's researchers scanned the original 1940s bomb census maps, then geo-referenced them to digitally pinpoint the approximate locations off all recorded bombs that struck the city.
http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Pigeon » Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:32 pm

Surprising that any building was even left.

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Royal » Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:57 pm

Makes me wonder how far a nuclear armed Germany would have gone.

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Re: WW2 pigeon found with encrypted message

Post by Pigeon » Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:42 am

Given what they showed, as far as they could and needed for their agenda.

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