Valiant takes advantage of his small size and sneaks into the bunker through the gun barrel, retrieves the message, and frees Bugsy and Mercury. Valiant and the troops follow Bugsy to the falcon's bunker, where they discover that Gutsy has survived the plane crash. Von Talon takes the message from Bugsy and decides to lock him up and kill him later, planning to personally deliver the message to Der Fuehrer himself. They soon come under attack by Von Talon's henchmen, resulting in Bugsy and the message being captured. In France, the pigeons meet Charles de Girl and Rollo, two mice from the French Resistance, Mouse Division, who lead them to Saint-Pierre, where they receive the message they have been ordered to deliver. The plane crash-lands nearby, but then explodes, presumably killing Gutsy. The pigeons are dropped from the plane however, a technical malfunction causes Gutsy's box to fail to deploy. Their plane sustains heavy damage and the pigeons soon have to bail out, in boxes equipped with parachutes. The journey quickly becomes dangerous, as the plane is caught in an anti-aircraft attack.
Next morning Valiant and the others prepare to leave, and start to board a Handley Page Halifax bound for occupied France, but not before Bugsy shows up at the last second. Bugsy, however, decides not to go on the "highly dangerous" mission and flees the camp that night. Eventually, Gutsy arrives and tells the Sergeant that the recruits need to leave the next morning, despite their training being vastly incomplete. Valiant develops a crush on Victoria, the camp's nursing dove. However, Mercury refuses to tell, despite the tortures inflicted upon him, such as irritating him with yodeling music and injecting him with truth serum, before Mercury accidentally reveals the location: Saint-Pierre. Meanwhile, Von Talon and his henchmen, Cufflingk and Underlingk, try numerous attempts to discover the message's departure location. Under the command of Sergeant Monty, who declares that he will toughen them up for the RHPS, the training begins. The recruits, Valiant, Bugsy, Lofty, an intellectual red pigeon, and Toughwood and Tailfeather, two muscular but dim-witted twin brothers, form Royal Homing Pigeon Service Squad F, and are sent to a recruit training facility. In order to escape the thugs, he signs up with Valiant.
In London, Valiant meets an unhygienic slacker pigeon named Bugsy, who is being hunted by two magpie thugs, after having tricked them at a shell game. Valiant flies off to London, bidding his mother and Felix goodbye.
Wing Commander Gutsy, a war hero, flies into the bar, informing everyone that signups are scheduled the next day in Trafalgar Square, London. He is best friends with Felix, an old seagull with a peg leg and the local barman. They are, however, suddenly ambushed and attacked by a Nazi German enemy peregrine falcon named General Von Talon two of the pigeons are instantly killed, yet the third, Mercury, is taken as a prisoner of war.Įlsewhere, a small wood pigeon named Valiant is watching an Allied forces propaganda film in his local bar (an overturned rowing boat) in West Nestington. Despite the poor weather conditions the pigeons have nearly reached their destination. In May 1944, five years after the declaration of World War II, three Royal Homing Pigeon Service war pigeons are flying across the English Channel with the White Cliffs of Dover in sight, carrying vital messages to Great Britain.
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