The Flight

Dennis Wall of the UK has been a pigeon fancier and been involved in pigeon racing for over 60 years, not only in competition with others, but also having taken part in all aspects of administration of the sport.
He is also administrator of his own Internet Website www.iprr.co.uk which aims to make the sport of pigeon racing interesting to fanciers in all parts of the world.
Over the years he has been a correspondent at various times for “The Racing Pigeon” – The PIGEON Sport – The Australian Racing Pigeon Journal and also the online Winning Magazine www.winningmagazine.nl

He has recently reviewed “The Flight” (an 8 – 10 minute short film www.pigeonsincombat.com) by Alessandro Croseri and this is what he has to say:

From the moment I clicked the “Start” button on the DVD player I was captivated by this astonishing and enthralling short film depicting facts, not fiction, of homing pigeons and their exploits in World Wars 1 & 2.
This is truly an educational film that should be made available to as many people as possible of all ages, to enlighten them of the heroics that pigeons performed in two world wars, saving many human lives in the process.
Not only were they dropped behind enemy lines in containers attached to small parachutes to be released by resistance and freedom fighters, they were released from mobile lofts, tanks and aircraft to carry vital messages back to headquarters sometimes many miles away, in all kinds of weather, through enemy gunfire.
Some even carried miniature cameras attached to the front of their breasts to photograph areas of hostile territory.
Many failed to survive enemy gunfire, others were severely wounded, losing various parts of their anatomy in the process but many remained airborne in spite of the dangers to deliver their urgent and valuable messages and film.
Alessandro Croseri has captured many of these heroics on film with no voice dubbing, but perfect background music and soundtracks that makes this short film so impressive and compulsive viewing.
Let us not forget that pigeons were honoured with more animal “Victoria Crosses” than any other animals that assisted in the war efforts and Alessandro Croseri has presented us with insights into the various circumstances.
I thoroughly recommend this short film to pigeon fanciers and non fanciers alike. My only regret was that there is insufficient time available on the film to cover many more of these pigeon exploits in more detail.
Should he ever decide to make a full length feature film on the same subject, I for one would be near the front of the queue for my cinema seat ticket.

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