Secret Codes

A dead carrier pigeon was found in a London house chimney with a note attached to its leg.  Researchers believe that the note was a coded message from World War II and that the pigeon was no doubt returning from Nazi occupied France during the June 1944 D-Day invasion.  Apparently, messages carried by pigeons were frequently dispatched across the Channel during the blackouts to give updates on the invasion. Only the most sensitive messages would have had such a complex code and as of yet, no one has been able to decipher it.  The message has now been handed over to Bletchley Park in England which houses the National code center and tries to decipher these kind of messages.  They will try to unravel the message using World War II logbooks.  Here’s the message:

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 KNTIM


I’ve started to decipher the code myself…and I think I have made good progress.  So far I have:

“Help…I’m being held captive in a pigeon coop!”