{"id":23006,"date":"2022-03-31T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23006"},"modified":"2022-03-29T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T03:01:31","slug":"for-the-birds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/for-the-birds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"for the birds &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23007\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Aerial-camera-spys-Popular-Mechanics-Sept.-1942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23007\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23007\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Aerial-camera-spys-Popular-Mechanics-Sept.-1942-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">article on wartime avian photographers<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Some ideas work; some don&#8217;t. In 1942, the third Reich experimented with pigeon photographers according to this article in the September, 1942 issue of Popular Mechanics . Cameras were attached to pigeons and set for automatic operation over a period of time. Released over Russia, I guess the Nazis hoped the photographs would offer cheaper aerial surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>War time brought out many new ideas and experiments, but as I suggested, some worked; some didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my good friend, George Dunbar, for finding this article and sharing it with us, Was it a spoof? was it true? Don&#8217;t know. Both sides tend to diss the other in any war. WW2 was no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Some ideas work; some don&#8217;t. In 1942, the third Reich experimented with pigeon photographers according to this article in the September, 1942 issue of Popular Mechanics . Cameras were attached to pigeons and set for automatic operation over a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/for-the-birds-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,4067,398,14,5,4066],"class_list":["post-23006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-avian","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-photographer","tag-pigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23010,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions\/23010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}