#SundayNightFlick Pigeons have a long history of military "service", used as messengers in the days before our modern communications technology of today. Pigeons can return from as far away as 3,200 kms and are able to fly as fast as 95 km/h. When used as messengers or couriers, 98 per cent of pigeons got their deliveries through even when the roost was mobile and moving with the front. Soldiers often carried them in their coats like a mobile phone would be today. Dubbed the "War of the Birds”,