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Undercover pigeon carrying WWII secrets found in chimney

Pigeon skeleton and the coded message it was carrying during World War II. Credit: Bletchley Park

The remains of a carrier pigeon from World War II have been found in the chimney of a house in Bletchingley, Surrey, with the top-secret coded message it was meant to deliver still attached to the bird's foot.

The pigeon could have been dispatched from Nazi-occupied France during the D-Day invasions and was thought to have been headed for Bletchley Park with the coded message.

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