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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97524

Specialist (Pigeon Trainer) Ethel Haberman, USNR(W)


Affixes a message to a carrier pigeon, as it is prepared for a training flight aboard a blimp at Naval Air Station, Lighter-than-Air, Richmond, Virginia.
Information is from the original caption released with this photograph effective 23 July 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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6 March 2001