Kaiser
date: label: associated date
content: 1917 - 1918
notes: label: Description
content: Kaiser was a carrier pigeon who carried messages for the German Army during World War I; he was captured by American doughboys during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 and was pressed into service for the Allies. After the war, he was sent to Ft. Monmouth, N.J., home of the U.S. Signal Corps; except for an interlude during World War II, when he was used in training homing pigeons at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he spent the rest of his long life (32 years) there. Upon his death in 1949, he was stuffed and mounted, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution
label: Description
content: Carrier pigeons like Kaiser and Cher Ami played an important role in both World Wars
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.52826
label: catalog number
content: 52826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pigeon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: feathers; glass; wire; wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 7 in x 13 in; 19.685 cm x 17.78 cm x 33.02 cm