Attention, British animal warriors! Be on the lookout for a one-legged septuagenarian pigeon who may, or may not, also sport an eyepatch and a tiny swastika. It appears that the bird, in trying to sabotage Great Britain’s effort in World War II, gnawed off its own leg rather than deliver a vital coded message.
If you find this pigeon, please be careful! Not because it will peck you, but because it has to be very, very brittle by now. The code-breakers from Britain’s main electronic intelligence-gathering agency, Government Communications Headquarters, want that bird alive. Otherwise, who knows when and where Jerry plans to strike next?