A military pigeon was shot by a bullet, which first hit its left eye, then a piece of shrapnel hit its chest, piercing its sternum, and a piece of shrapnel cut off its left calf, and finally why it became a hero of the American army.
This begins in 1918, when the Allies launched the Maas-Argonne Campaign in order to deliver a final blow to the Germans, in which a lonely and deep American force was ambushed by the Germans, and nearly two hundred people were trapped in the hillside depressions behind the Germans.
The U.S. artillery unit, unaware of the situation, continued to fire shells at its intended position, with the Germans in front of them and friendly shells flying in behind them, and the besieged American army was soon caught in a dilemma.
When he was about to run out of ammunition, the commander of the unit had to pin all his hopes on a military pigeon named Cher Ami, who wrote down the coordinates of his unit on a note and a message begging friendly troops to stop shelling, and then stuffed the note into the metal cylinder on the pigeon's foot.
Unexpectedly, not long after Cher Ame took off, the German bullet hit it, the bullet first hit its left eye, then a piece of shrapnel hit its chest, piercing its sternum, and a piece of shrapnel cut off its left calf, but the tenacious pigeon continued to fly for 25 miles in a rain of bullets.
Arrived at the rear of the American army, delivered the letter to the hands of the artillery, and miraculously this scarred pigeon was later rescued by the American military doctor and survived until the end of a station.
The hero's military pigeon later died peacefully in the United States in 1919. At the age of 9, his body was made into a specimen and became an exhibit in the Museum of American History, and its legend was written into a book and became a pillow reading for American children. #History #World War I # #涨知识 #
