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pigeons during WW1

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Military War Pigeons Worldwide Message Carriers

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Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips

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US Soldiers demonstrate use of carrier pigeons during WWII HD Stock Footage

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Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675024685_combat-pigeons_Care-and-training_places-capsule_message-is-inserted-into-the-capsule Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. US Soldiers demonstrate use of carrier pigeons during WWII Soldiers are outside a coop. One soldier feeds pigeons outside coop and enters the coop. Pigeons in the coop. Soldier selects two pigeons and places capsule on their legs.

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Pigeons played a vital part in World War One as they proved to be an extremely reliable way of sending messages. Such was the importance of pigeons that over 100,000 were used in the war with an astonishing success rate of 95% getting through to their destination with their message.

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Franz Ferdinand's licence plate was the cause of a strange coincidence

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Franz Ferdinand's licence plate was the cause of a strange coincidence

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Everyone knows that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife led to the beginning of the war but what you didn't know is that strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 11 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November' 18

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The youngest British soldier was 12 years old

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The youngest British soldier was 12 years old

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Sidney Lewis was just 12 years old when he lied about his age and joined the army during World War One. He was one of thousands of eager underage boys who enlisted and ended up fighting alongside their adult counterparts on the front. Some were motivated by patriotism, but for others it was an escape from their dreary lives.

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An explosion on the battlefield in France was heard in London

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An explosion on the battlefield in France was heard in London

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A team of miners worked in secret to dig tunnels under the trenches during the war in order to plant and detonate mines there. The detonations destroyed much of the German front line and were so great, the prime minister then heard the sound in London, 140 MILES AWAY!!!

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Shrapnel was the cause of many facial injuries in WW1 and unlike the straight-line wounds inflicted by bullets, the twisted metal shards produced from a shrapnel blast could easily rip a face off. Horrified by the injuries he saw, surgeon Harold Gillies, took on the task of helping victims and pioneered early techniques of facial reconstruction in the process.

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When a generation of men went to fight the war, more than a million women took their place in the workforce. They worked long hours, often in poor conditions and with dangerous chemicals. The so-called 'canaries' were women who worked with TNT, which gave them toxic jaundice and turned their skin yellow.