Experts say tha skeletal remains of a pigeon discovered in the chimney of a house in southern England carried a mysterious long-forgotten message from World War II. Historians at Britain's wartime code-breaking headquarters say the bird was almost certainly returning from Nazi-occupied France during the June 1944 D-Day invasion. Bletchley Park said that one of its curators was trying to unravel the coded message using WWII logbooks.
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