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Paddy (pigeon) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Paddy (pigeon) Paddy (Pigeon number NPS.43.9451)〔(PDSA website ), Dickin Medal awardees, retrieved 2006-02-26〕 was an Irish carrier pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal after being the fastest pigeon to arrive back in England with news of the success of the D-Day invasion, out of hundreds dispatched. He flew 230 miles across the English Channel in four hours and fifty minutes,〔(Times Online ), "Top 50 greatest sporting animals", retrieved 2008-04-26〕 the fastest recorded crossing, and was awarded the medal on 1 September 1944, just under three months after the crossing.〔(Observer magazine ) Dickin medal awardees, retrieved 2006-02-26〕 Paddy was trained by Andrew Hughes of Carnlough and is the only animal in Ireland to be awarded this medal.〔(BBC Your Place and Mine ), "Paddy Power", retrieved 2008-04-26〕 The medal citation reads, His medal was sold at auction for almost £7,000 in September 1999.〔(BBC News website ), "Northern Ireland Fancier flies away with pigeon medal", retrieved 2006-02-26〕 ==References==
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