Did you get the memo? Today is national memo day, the day where we Americans celebrate (or maybe the better verb is recognize) the ever circulating, sometimes useful memo! Here is one of our favorite memos.  It is part of a series of General Correspondence Files created by the Army Air Forces at Ross Field between 1918-1929.  The memo details the potential uses for carrier pigeons in the operations of the air field. If nothing else, “The use of carrier pigeons might save a pilot and passengers from possible starvation in the mountains in case of forced landings…”
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Did you get the memo?

Today is national memo day, the day where we Americans celebrate (or maybe the better verb is recognize) the ever circulating, sometimes useful memo!

Here is one of our favorite memos.  It is part of a series of General Correspondence Files created by the Army Air Forces at Ross Field between 1918-1929.  The memo details the potential uses for carrier pigeons in the operations of the air field.

If nothing else, “The use of carrier pigeons might save a pilot and passengers from possible starvation in the mountains in case of forced landings…”

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    Take a memo. Happy National Memo Day. Send return message by carrier pidgeon. Courtesy of
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    Awesome. (And JUST FOR FUTURE REFERENCE, National Memo Day...May 21, apparently.)
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    June 23, 1919. Subject: Carrier Pigeons
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