airdropped
...that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
...that during <a href="./World_War_II" id="mwA1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a> the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Military_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwA10" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Military of the United Kingdom">British military</a> successfully <b id="mwA14"><a href="./Source_Columba" id="mwA18" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Source Columba">airdropped</a></b> <a href="./Homing_pigeon" id="mwA2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Homing pigeon">homing pigeons</a> into <a href="./Nazi_Germany" id="mwA2E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nazi Germany">German</a>-occupied <a href="./France" id="mwA2I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="France">France</a> so that they might carry the locals' <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Intelligence_(information_gathering)" id="mwA2M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Intelligence (information gathering)">intelligence</a> reports back to England?