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White Vision
White Vision, also known by its service number SURP.41.L.3089, was a female Second World War homing pigeon who served with the National Pigeon Service and was posted to No. 190 Squadron RAF. She was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943 for delivering a message from a flying boat forced to ditch off the coast of Scotland.
==Military service==
White Vision was bred by the Fleming brothers of Motherwell, Scotland. During the Second World War she was lent to the National Pigeon Service,〔 and was stationed at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands with No. 190 Squadron RAF.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scotsatwar.org.uk/printerv/dickinmedal.htm )〕
On 11 October 1943, White Vision was aboard a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat when it was forced to ditch in the North Sea near the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rpra.org/AboutUs/PigeonsInWar/tabid/94/Default.aspx )〕 With the plane's radio out of action, she was released to indicate where the plane had gone down, as bad weather conditions were preventing it from being found by other planes. She flew some against a strong headwind, arriving back at her pigeon loft. The search was resumed and the plane was subsequently found, with all eleven members of the air crew saved after they had spent some eighteen hours in the sea.〔
She was awarded the Dickin Medal on 2 December 1943; her medal citation reads "For delivering a message under exceptionally difficult conditions and so contributing to the rescue of an Air Crew while serving with the RAF in October 1943."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pdsa.org.uk/about-us/animal-bravery-awards/dickin-medal-pigeons )〕 The medal is referred to as the animal's Victoria Cross, and White Vision was one of the first pigeons to be awarded it.〔
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