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that a pigeon saved nearly 200 lives. In a WWI battle, a US battalion trapped behind enemy lines sent a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Shot by German snipers and heavily wounded, he competed his mission, saving the soldiers, and later received the Croix de Guerre, France s highest military honor

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Fun Fact: that a pigeon saved nearly 200 lives. In a WWI battle, a US battalion trapped behind enemy lines sent a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Shot by German snipers and heavily wounded, he competed his mission, saving the soldiers, and later received the Croix de Guerre, France’s highest military honor

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