GCHQ appeal for public help to crack D-Day carrier pigeon code

The message, packed in a small red capsule and found with a pigeon skeleton by David Martin in his floo, has stumped the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters.

The Telegraph reports historians belief that that bird was most likely dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day invasions, but experts have admitted they can’t work it out without the context with which it was sent.

They’ve appealed to retired codebreakers from the GCHQ’s former incarnation, Bletchley Park, or anyone else with military communications skills. 

A historian from GCHQ told BBC Radio 4 “there are still quite a lot of people alive who worked in communication centres during the war."

The historian, known as Tony for security purposes, said: "It would be very interesting if people did have any information if they could put it in the pot and we could see if we can get any further with it."

What do you reckon this means?

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC

RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX

PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH

NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ

WAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH

LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ

KLDTS FQIRW AOAKN 27 1525/6

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